Legal responsibility of private health care organizations

In result of constant developments in medical science and constant increase in human population today private medical institutions are a necessity among public ones. Number of these private medical institutions providing medical services with grant of and under supervision of the state is increasing each passing day.Even though private medical institutions are responsible to provide medical services, a public service type, they are generally established as a commercial entity; therefore their responsibilities are somewhat different than the other organizations in services sector.Since private medical institutions operate directly on human health their unique responsibilities have to be defined by legal arrangement. Main subject of our discourse is these legal responsibilities and rights of private medical institutions, and legal grounds of these responsibilities. In this scope, we will first examine the role of private medical institutions in medical services, followed by a discussion of practice errors during service and the complication concept. Finally, we will refer to legal grounds of these responsibilities and indemnification obligations of private medical institutions.Keywords: Private medical institutions, medical services, medical operations, responsibility, practice errors