Deprivation of the Right to Engage in Medical Activities by a Court Decision Due to Causing Death by Negligence

Nafikova G. A.
PhD (Law), Associate Professor, Chair for Criminal Law and Process¹

1 - TISBI University of Management, Kazan, Russian Federation

Nafikova Gulnara Idarovna; e-mail: pravovoy-status.kzn@yandex.ru

None declared.

The study had no sponsorship.

The object of the study is established system of attitudes in the legal sector to the unlawful professional medical activities associated with the infliction of death by negligence. The subject of the study are relations between the professional level of a doctor, his conformity with the requirements for the implementation of medical activities in case of patient’s death by negligence. Death by negligence cases are analyzed from the standpoint of judicial and law enforcement practice. The purpose of the study, as set out in the article, is to consider the contradiction between the causes of deprivation of the right to engage in medical activity and confirmation of medical professional compliance. The methodological basis of the research are analysis, comparative method, method of systematic approach. A comprehensive and systematic study of the problems of unlawful medical activity in modern society has made it possible to formulate some legal constructs minimizing the number of medical errors by making changes to the current legislation and to build legal patterns of repetition of crimes committed by doctors. The author proposes to match the objective relationships between causing death by negligence and professional compliance. It is proposed to carry out extraordinary medical accreditation of persons to whom such a penalty as deprivation of the right to engage in medical activities is applied. Formulating conclusions, the author admits the inadmissibility of re-violation of bioethical principles, such as «do no harm», by convicted doctors returning to the profession after the end of the sentence. In this connection, the unscheduled accreditation of a doctor, after serving a sentence in the form of deprivation of the right to engage in medical activities, is fair both from the point of view of professional knowledge check and building trust between the patient and the doctor concerning the latter professional skills. The general trend to minimize incompetent medical care, should, in the author's view, result in revision of some provisions on the management of the list of practitioners in the database for health institutions, as well as re-checking the professional level of a doctor.

medicine, practice, death, negligence, harm, error, doctor, criminal case, trial, court

10.29234/2308-9113-2020-8-1-1-11

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