| In real social life, anyone , no matter who he or she is or what job he is engaging in, unavoidably suffers from acute or slight diseases in all his life. Because of illness seeing a doctor is not only the need of human health but also the manifestation of progress of human civilization. Human existence, social development and progress of civilization need medical enterprises. When people go to see a doctor, they entrust their health and even their lives to medical staff who is devoted to save the diseased and the wounded. Any medical error will cause patient life pain or even deprive his or her life and human health and life are the most valuable in the world, which is the important reason that the society pays high attention to medical accident. This article emphatically discusses what medical accident is; how to dispose it and how to use laws and regulations to deal with the relations between the hospital and the patient; and how to settle the problems of responsibilities and damages when medical accident happens.This article is divided into three sections. The first section expounds the concept and components of medical accident and discusses its grades.The second section elaborates common medical faults that cause medical accidents and the situations that do not cause medical accidents, which will be helpful to hospital and patient or relevant authorized organizations to realize and distinguish what situation will cause a medical accident and what situation will not.The third section includes three main aspects. Firstly, it discusses conditions and forms that the hospital and medical staff bear administrative liabilities and the problem that should be noticed when giving medical staff administrative punishment. Secondly, it discusses liabilities for civil compensation of medical accident. It elaborates means of dispute settlement for compensation of medical accident. Lastly, it discusses the criminal liability of crime of medical accident.The section of conclusion mainly elaborates the author's own viewpoints about medical accidents and their disposition. The author puts forward some suggestions on how to perfect legislation and jurisdiction about medical accidents. |
