No-fault compensation for medical accidents
Norrie, Kenneth and Hendry, Robert (2011) No-fault compensation for medical accidents. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 41 (4). pp. 290-291. ISSN 1478-2715 (https://doi.org/10.4997/JRCPE.2011.40)
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A discussion of the work of the Scottish Government's No Fault Compensation Group.Medical practice, like any other human activity, sometimes leads to accidents, or unusual complications, or unexpected results. Usually no one is to blame; sometimes someone is at fault. If the patient has been harmed, and the doctor’s act (or failure to act) amounts to what the law calls ‘negligence’, then the patient may seek monetary compensation for the injury they have suffered. Yet any patient who emerges from medical treatment with an injury he or she did not have before the treatment needs care for that injury, whether or not the doctor was negligent, or the negligence caused the injury, or the patient can prove negligence and causation to a sufficient legal standard. The current system of compensation provides high levels of compensation for some patients injured in the course of medical treatment, and no compensation at all for most.
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Norrie, Kenneth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1397-2576 and Hendry, Robert;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 36995 Dates: DateEventDecember 2011PublishedSubjects: Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine
Law > Law (General)Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Law School > Law Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 24 Jan 2012 09:51 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 10:02 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/36995