Al-Azri Nasser Hammad
Emergency Department, Ibri Hospital, Ministry of Health, A'Dhahirah, Oman.
Oman Med J. 2020 Sep 30;35(5):e182. doi: 10.5001/omj.2020.123. eCollection 2020 Sep.
Professionals in healthcare face, not infrequently, medical liability issues in their practice. Worldwide, patient safety has become a major medical, legal, ethical, political, and economic concern. Oman has witnessed a leap in its medical and legal spheres over the last half a century. Developments in healthcare services in the country have taken place in parallel with developments in legal awareness regarding patient safety and bodily integrity. However, many healthcare practitioners remain unaware of medical liability essentials in their daily practice. Neither basic medical education nor professional development education incorporates medical law in general and, specifically, medical liability in their courses and curricula. Hence, this article attempts to present the essentials of medical liability in healthcare practice in accordance with existing Omani legislation. It defines medical liability and identifies four types of liability that healthcare practitioners might be prone to penal, civil, disciplinary, and administrative liabilities. Each of these forms of liability is discussed with examples illustrating it from enacted Omani laws. This paper concludes by recommending a further focus on medical law in basic and professional education of healthcare practitioners in Oman.
医疗行业的专业人员在其执业过程中经常会面临医疗责任问题。在全球范围内，患者安全已成为一个主要的医学、法律、伦理、政治和经济问题。在过去的半个世纪里，阿曼在医学和法律领域取得了飞跃。该国医疗服务的发展与患者安全和身体完整性方面的法律意识发展同步进行。然而，许多医疗从业者在日常执业中仍未意识到医疗责任的要点。基础医学教育和专业发展教育在其课程中都没有纳入一般的医学法律，特别是医疗责任。因此，本文试图根据阿曼现行立法介绍医疗执业中医疗责任的要点。它定义了医疗责任，并确定了医疗从业者可能容易面临的四种责任类型，即刑事、民事、纪律和行政责任。文中通过阿曼现行法律中的示例对每种责任形式进行了讨论。本文最后建议在阿曼医疗从业者的基础和专业教育中进一步关注医学法律。
