A Jurisprudential Thought On The Disputes For Compensations Of Medical Injury

This thesis plans to begin with compensation liability for medical injury and its principle of bearing responsibility, assignment of burden of proof, identification, understanding and application in terms of law, etc to discuss how to correctly understand and apply law and administrative rules and regulations for properly settling the dispute over compensation for medical injury. This thesis consists of four parts: the first one is about summarization of compensation liability for medical injury with clear concept, quality, structure and principle of bearing responsibility; the second one is about burden of proof of the damage dispute over compensation for medical injury with main discussion on assignment of burden of proof and identification; in the third part, the author mainly discusses understanding dispute over compensation for medical injury in terms of law and application of law and mainly discusses how to settle the problem of application of law, especially how to utilize the General Provisions of the Civil Law and Regulation in practice; The fourth one is about legislative proposals, namely, the author's legislative idea for the situation of dispute over compensation for medical injury in China.The first part is about civil liability in compensation liability for medical injury which plays the basic function in the whole text. The author defines the characteristic of civil liability in compensation liability for medical injury currently in china by comparing analysis of characteristic of medical injury done by different theory based on defining medical injury, and defines the structure of its civil liability, principle of bearing responsibility and circle of theory's different idea toward medical injury through stating its structure. Basing on comparing and analyzing different ideas, the author believes that compensation liability for medical injury should be defined as civil compensation liability that medical establishment should shoulder when medical establishment and its medical personnel violate the law of medical and health management, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulation, criterion for diagnosis and treat, convention, professional morality for health service and damage sufferer. This definition brings medical accident and others medical mistakes into the scope of civil compensation liability, which is in favor of protecting civil rights of sufferer and accord with the basic principle and spirit of legislation of civil law. Synthesizing the analysis of the characteristic of civil responsibility by different theory, the author believes that the characteristic of Chinese compensation liability for medical injury should be civil infringement since compensation liability for medical injury doesn't possess the serious characteristic of responsibility in contrast. Secondly, seeing the characteristic of dispute over compensation for medical injury from the point of view of consequence of liability and burden of proof, the author analyzes the composing elements of compensation liability for medical injury, and also defines the principle of assigning responsibly in dispute over compensation for medical injury should be presumption of fault principle. On the one hand, it is necessary to cognize the fault in virtue of presumption of fault principle for protecting the legal rights of sufferer since the complexity and specialty and the difficulty of defining the fault and cause-effect relationship of medical behavior; On the other hand, the burden of proof rests on medical establishment is helpful to investigating the fact and determining the ownership of responsibility since sufferer doesn't possess professional knowledge about medicine and medical establishment knows the reason of damage.The second part is about the research on the burden of proof of the damage dispute over compensation for medical injury. Based on the reality of china, the Supreme People's Court formulated the Regulations on Proof of Civil Action, which establishes the principle of inverting the burden of proof of the dispute over compensation for medical injury; However, it doesn't mean that sufferer is relieved from burden of proof. Although principle of inverting the burden of proof is adopted, accuser still bears the burden of proof, and medical establishment doesn't bear burden of proof for every thing but just there is no cause-effect relationship between medical behavior and the consequence of damage and there is no medical mistake. In the dispute over compensation for medical injury, sufferers bear burden of proof for the existence, the fact of damage and consequence of damage, and ,they have the right of choosing in terms of burden of proof for that whether there is cause-effect relationship between the consequence of medical injury and whether the medical behavior is right or not, that is to say, sufferers can demonstrate or not as accuser, and they also can give disproof aiming at the burden of proof of burden of proof medical establishment. As for the identification, one of the important proof in dispute over compensation for medical injury, different ideas exist in practice; the author considers that Medical Association isn't the only one legal institution for appraisal of medical accident and many-sides appraisal is ineluctable; Moreover, there is enough room for many-sides appraisal. There is on final one in appraisal by Medical Association, and the medical accident in practice will be appraised again and again by many sides, even these appraisals conflict. Its cognizance of effectiveness should keeping to the following principles: the effectiveness of appraisal should be emphasized and considered as basic foundation for settle a lawsuit when only appraisal by Medical Association exists; when conclusion of repeated appraisal and many-sides appraisal appears, it is proper to organize both parties for evidentiary hearing, and parties can examine each appraisal until they get agreement. Appraisers should be invited to evidentiary hearing or court for explaining inquiry from parties in order to avoiding appraising afresh; Moreover, parties can apply for one or two persons with special knowledge to the court for explaining some special problems about the case.The third part is about understanding dispute over compensation for medical injury in terms of law and application of law. The legal characteristic of the relationship between doctor and sufferer and characteristic of civil liability in compensation liability for medical injury determine the method and principle of application of law. Proceeding from the necessary premises of characteristic of civil relationship and structure of civil liability, it is proper to apply the General Provisions of the Civil Law since it covers all disputes over compensation for medical injury; However, its application does not exclude the application of Regulation for reference. Since there is no violation law for settling doctor-sufferer dispute resulting from the limitation of legislation currently, the content in Regulation which does not violate the identity of civil spirit and spirit of civil legislation can be regarded as the detail of the General Provisions of the Civil Law and can be applied for reference. These measures not only maintaining the application of basic law of state, but also carry out the relative unification of compensation in terms of applying laws in the standard and amount of compensation and fully protecting legal rights of sufferers, which is the only one can make up the limitation of law in china and the faultiness of legislation.The fourth part is about legislative proposals. Based on analysis, the author puts forwards the legislative ideas about how to settle the related problems in the dispute over compensation for medical injury: Firstly, establishing special legislation for dispute over compensation for medical injury; Secondly, establishing the Medical injury Insurance System; Thirdly, establishing the system of medical behavior exemption; Fourthly, establishing the rationed compensation system; Fifthly, unifying cause-effect relationship and bearing responsibility; Sixthly, laying the value-added tax on medical industry and establishing compensation system; Moreover, the author explains these proposals in detail.