Great expectations: medical accident tribunals in the Popular Republic of China

• Autor(a) principal: Raposo, Vera Lúcia
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Iong, Man Teng
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/335
• topic: tribunais do acidente médico; China; responsabilidade médica; direitos dos pacientes; conflitos médicos; Medical Accident Tribunals. China. Medical Liability. Patient’s Rights. Medical Conflicts.; Tribunales de accidentes médicos. China. La responsabilidad médica. Los derechos de los pacientes. Conflictos médicos.

Due to deep economic and social changes in China health care delivery faces severe difficulties in order to satisfy the patient’s needs, thus leading to frequent conflict between patients and health care facilities and/or doctors. Since regular courts seem unable to solve medical litigation cases in a way considered satisfactory for both parties Chinese government created the so called “medical accident tribunals”. These courts are characterised by two main notes: on the one hand, their composition, since, unlike regular courts, they are composed by deciders with medical expertise; on the other hand, the fact that the activity developed by these courts is restricted to the field of medical liability, thus, this specialization allows them to decide faster and supposable in a more just way. However, and despite the main development that medical accident courts represent, they are just a small piece of the main reform required by medical conflicts around China.