Dentists ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Liability, Legal

Dentists ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Humans ; Liability, Legal

In the personal injury compensation system, the protection and relief of the injured people's rights to life, rights to health, and body rights are generally based on the results of disability assessment. Over the years, with the increased number of personal injury compensation cases, the practice of disability assessment have been greatly developed, and the development of disability assessment standards tends to be mature. However, the lack of basic theories for disability assessment has seriously affected the construction and unification of standards. Starting from the tort legal system of personal injury compensation, this article systematically analyzes the legal theories of disability assessment, and holds that the loss of labor ability is the legal basis for disability assessment in China, and the essence of disability assessment should be understood as the quantitative assessment of an individual's permanent loss of labor ability. This article combines the international disability assessment models and the primary concepts of American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment to refine the basic concepts of disability assessment in China, such as impairment, disability, handicap, disabled people and self-care ability, etc. At the same time, it sorts out the critical issues of identification time, promotion principles and compound calculation of multiple injuries in disability assessment. It is expected to be beneficial to the theory and practice of disability assessment in personal injury compensation.
Humans ; Disability Evaluation ; Liability, Legal ; China

Medical issues in the air such as in-flight deaths, diversions, deliveries have gained increasing publicity. In-flight medical emergencies are expected to increase because air travel continues to expand and as more elderly or invalid passengers often wish to fly long distances. The protection of passenger health is an important obligation of airlines. Most airlines have prepared many resources for in-flight medical care. Resources may include emergency medical kits including medications, portable oxygen bottles and automated external defibrillator (AED), trained flight attendants with available in-flight medical care. Furthermore, air to ground communication systems are prepared. Although the number of serious medical events is very small, despite increased airline's efforts, physician passengers are occasionally called upon to care for the ill or injured passengers at any time. Medical liability has always been in the mind of physicians called upon to treat a patient in-flight. Therefore, fear of liability is cited as a major reason for physicians reluctance to offer assistance. New legislation that would require all commercial flights to carry AEDs should also include a "Good Samaritan" provision that exempts from liability physicians who step forward to offer assistance in-flight medical emergency. Physicians take an important role in case of in-flight medical emergencies. This paper describes the multiple in-flight resources to be used by physician passengers who is called upon to help passengers in the cabin.
Aged ; Defibrillators ; Diptera ; Emergencies ; Humans ; Liability, Legal ; Oxygen

Dissent and Disputes ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Liability, Legal ; Malpractice ; legislation & jurisprudence

Dentists ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Liability, Legal ; Malpractice ; legislation & jurisprudence

This article provides a general overview of the interface between law and telemedicine. The piece is not a roadmap for any one legal system but rather attempts to illustrate issues which cut across borders, recognizing that each country's legal system may have unique impacts on telemedicine. The article notes that the nature of the legal issue will be colored by the nature of the telemedicine application in question, as well as by consideration of whether a given program is in a development or applied phase. Broad topics to be considered in this piece include medical liability, patient rights, privacy and licensure.
Jurisprudence* ; Liability, Legal ; Licensure ; Patient Rights ; Privacy ; Telemedicine*

Dentists ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Dissent and Disputes ; Expert Testimony ; Humans ; Liability, Legal

Transoral robotic thyroidectomy (TORT) is well consistent with the primary goal of remote-access thyroid surgery, which is to avoid a visible cervical scar. Additionally, the extent of transoral thyroidectomy dissection is less than that of other remote-access surgical procedures. Owing to these merits of the transoral approach, several institutions around the world are now performing this procedure. Since transoral thyroidectomy is performed in a confined, narrow space, and is characterized by a close distance from the ports to the working space, more benefits can be derived from multiarticulation of robotic instruments. Especially when performing left lobectomy by TORT, the surgeon can use right-handed robotic instruments over the thyroid cartilage with the merits of multiarticulation. In this study, we present our unique procedure of left lobectomy by TORT in detail.
Cicatrix ; Liability, Legal ; Thyroid Cartilage ; Thyroid Gland ; Thyroid Neoplasms ; Thyroidectomy

Medical certificate, post-mortem examination or certificate guarantee their authenticity of the content through the article 233 of the criminal act. The article 233 of the criminal act states that if a medical or oriental medical doctor, dentist or midwife prepare false medical certificate, postmortem examination or certificate life or death, one shall be punished. To constitute the crime of issuance of falsified medical certificates, it is necessary for the contents of the certificate to be substantially contrary to the truth, as well as it is needed the subjective perception that the contents of the certificate are false. On the article 17 of the medical service act, no one may prepare a medical certificate, a report or certificate of postmortem examination to a patient or public prosecutor in a district public prosecutors' office, who conducts a medical service and has given the medical treatment or conducted the postmortem examination by him/herself: Provided that, such certificate or report may be issued for a patient without giving any medical treatment, if the patient has died within 48 hours after his/her last medical treatment, while if the medical doctor, dentist or oriental medical doctors who examined a patient or conducted a postmortem examination of the dead patient is unable to issue such certificate or report due to an inevitable cause or event, any other medical doctor, dentist or oriental medical doctor who works for the same medical institution, may issue such certificate or report based on the medical records of the patient.
Autopsy ; Crime ; Criminals ; Dentists ; Humans ; Liability, Legal* ; Medical Records ; Midwifery ; Physicians ; Social Responsibility*