Beraldo Anna de Moraes Salles, Pereira Paula Moura Francesconi de Lemos
PUC-SP, Brazil.
Med Law. 2012 Jun;31(2):265-81.
The loss of chance doctrine arose in order to ensure full recovery of damages for the victims of medical negligence. In the doctor-patient relationship, the doctor performance may harm the patient in many different ways, giving rise to a range of injuries of different nature, including the injury caused by loss of the chance of cure or survival, which directly affects the patients' lives and health. Although this theory is not found in any enacted Brazilian law, and despite the resistance to its implementation due to the difficulty of its measurement and the calculation of the monetary damages, a gradual advancement in the application of the concept has been observed in recent years, showing that the Right to protect the dignity of the human person has been increasingly witnessed in Brazilian Courts.
机会丧失理论的出现是为了确保医疗过失受害者能够获得充分的损害赔偿。在医患关系中，医生的行为可能会以多种不同方式伤害患者，从而引发一系列性质不同的伤害，包括因治愈或存活机会丧失而导致的伤害，这直接影响患者的生命和健康。尽管巴西任何一部成文法中都未发现这一理论，并且由于其衡量难度和金钱损害赔偿的计算问题，该理论在实施过程中遭遇阻力，但近年来人们注意到这一概念的应用有逐渐推进的趋势，这表明巴西法院越来越重视保护人的尊严的权利。
