The Concept of Legal Regulation of Medical Activities

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of the main problems of legal regulation of medical activity in modern conditions. The author explains problematic aspects of organizational, legal, and doctrinal nature. The author highlights that medical activity as a separate group of economic relations can and should become a starting category for regulating close, but not identical, groups of legal relations in healthcare. The author proposes the main outlines of a possible concept of legal regulation of medical activity. The author elucidates his standing concerning the complex system of legal regulation of medical activity, its irreducibility to the subject field of medical services or medical care. The legitimization of medical activity involves the development of general, specific, as well as special (extraordinary) legal regimes for its implementation. The approach to the legal regulation of medical activity as a separate branch (field) of the economy (based on the totality of its economic, social and other effects), in the author’s opinion, allows us to form a consistent system of legislation regulating medical practice and healthcare legal relations in general.