Hospital Responsibilities in Providing Health Services
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.052How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- hospital responsibility, health services
- Abstract
Doctors as health care workers in hospitals are required to be professional in carrying out their duties and authority in medical services. In medical practice, doctors and patients have interrelated relationships. The object of this agreement is the health services performed by doctors and their nature is in the form of inspirational verb, which is the efforts of doctors to cure patients. However, not always the medical services provided by doctors in hospitals can produce the results that are desired by all parties. There are times when medical services occur errors/negligence by doctors that cause harm to both immaterial and material patients such as trauma, disability, paralysis or even death. Circumstances indicate that there is a doctor’s action which results in dissatisfaction with the patient which has implications for the doctor’s responsibility for the action. If this happens the doctor who made a mistake or negligence, the doctor will be assisted by the hospital in terms of compensation. The responsibility of the hospital as an employer from a doctor who is a sub-ordinate is also mentioned in 1367 Civil Code. Hospital Director shares responsibility when there is an error from the doctor for whom he is responsible, this is called vicarius liability. With this principle, the hospital can be held accountable for mistakes made by its doctors (sub-ordinate), provided that it can be proven that the doctor’s actions are in the context of carrying out hospital obligations.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Sunarto PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/20 TI - Hospital Responsibilities in Providing Health Services BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Law, Economics and Health (ICLEH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 256 EP - 260 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.052 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.052 ID - 2020 ER -