The legal results of unappropriate medical practies

The attached study with a heading of ?The Legal Results of Unappropriate Medical Practices? is a Graduate Thesis at Common Laws Department. Medical practices are the applications which are oriented to the physical and psychological wholeness of the person. They are both mandatory and useful regarding to the health of the person, but on the other hand can create dangerous results if applied unappropriately. The medical, social and ethical aspects of the subject which is circumscribed at our study within legal results are very important and versatile. Medicine, when compared to the other arts, is a field which inevitably requires team work. Although whenever medical practice description connotes doctors immediately, in reality the medical team, in addition to doctors, consists of a crowded health personnel. This subject was recalled as ?doctor?s mistake? or ?doctor?s responsibility? as to date, and burden was always studied under these headings. About this issue, except doctor, the responsibilities of the health workers and teams were never adequately evaluated. Basically, it is much more appropriate and universal to call this kind of a fact which requires unavoidably a team work as ?unappropriate medical practice? rather than ?doctor?s mistake.? The aim of choosing this subject as a thesis topic is, to emphasize the importance of medical practice in respect to the person himself and also as patient rights, to introduce the legal aspects, to explicite the unappropriate practices during the medical attention, to designate the legal responsibilities of the health workers about this issue. The study consists of an introductory chapter and three sections. Within introductory chapter; the subject is featured under main lines, its boundaries and importance is specified and the fundamental conceptions are familiarized. Within first section; the medical attention concept, its historical development and the importance of medical attentions, within second section; the duties of health workers against patient and as legal responsibility cause, the conditions which are accepted and called as unappropriate medical practices are emphasized. Under the third section of this study; the legal results of unappropriate practices during medical care are evaluated. Key Words 1. Medical Records 2. Medical Diagnosis 3. Legal Regulations 4. Mistake 5. Malpractice