[The work of forensic medical experts in detecting and preventing defects in medical care].

On the basis of practical experience (analysis of defects in 468 cases of trauma) the author formulates a pivotal concept of defect in medical care, reveals its nature and reasons, gives its functional classification. Many notions cited in the article have a general character and don't confine itself strictly to the subject of defects in cases of trauma. The author gives basis methods of the legal physician's activities in the prophylaxis of defects in medical care.