Malpractice
According to Hammurabi's Code of laws:
218. If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.
219. If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.
If back in 1700s BC, a physician's malpractice got punished, how come in the 21st century Indonesia it is so difficult to punish those who did malpractice?
4 comments:
yeh but in the US many docs stand by in case of being sued for malpractice... that's the other extreme...
I blame the culture & the law.
Is it really? Indonesian physicians are immune to malpractice? How interesting.
not immune, but not always punishable. the medic court is just established recently, the law is not that (hmmm struggling to find the right word) sufficient( cant compare it to the one in NL, it's the one that I am familiar with). the thing is, there are not enough doctors who understand the law, even less lawyers who understand medical issues to write decent health related law.
I think when doctors didn't follow the directive, some could get away with it. something that wont happen in NL.
besides, the culture of 'pasrah' makes people just accept the bad things and wont press charges.
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