The main causes of medical malpractice are as follows:
I. Negligence of medical personnel
Medical personnel fail to perform their due diligence in the course of diagnosis, treatment or care due to carelessness, fatigue or overstimulation, resulting in misdiagnosis, omission of diagnosis, inappropriate use of medication, surgical errors and so on, which can cause Medical malpractice.
II. Limitations of technical level
Medical work is highly specialized and complex. Due to the limitations of the level of development of medical technology, technical problems that cannot be predicted or solved, such as surgical complications and side effects of medication, may occur even in specialized medical institutions.
Third, the problem of medical facilities and medicines
The quality and reliability of medical facilities and medicines are also important factors leading to medical errors. Malfunctioning equipment, outdated or faulty quality of medicines may lead to treatment failure or adverse reactions.
Fourth, the patient's own factors
The patient's condition, physical condition, genetic factors, etc. may also lead to medical malpractice. For example, some patients may be allergic to certain drugs, and doctors fail to fully understand or ignore these conditions, resulting in allergic reactions and other medical errors.
Prevention and treatment of medical malpractice
I. Prevention of medical malpractice
1. Strengthening the legal system, and improving relevant regulations. Develop a more complete medical malpractice regulations, clear definition of medical malpractice, handling procedures, compensation standards, etc., to provide a clear legal basis for dealing with medical malpractice.
2. Strengthen the construction of medical ethics and improve the quality of professional ethics of medical personnel. Through training, education and other means to improve the quality of professional ethics of medical personnel, so that they recognize their responsibilities and obligations, and consciously abide by the norms of medical ethics.
3, strengthen the medical quality management, reduce the occurrence of medical errors. The establishment of a perfect medical quality management system, from all aspects to strengthen the control of medical quality, to reduce the occurrence of medical accidents.
4, improve patient safety awareness, enhance self-protection ability. Through publicity and education and other ways to improve the safety awareness of patients, so that they understand the risks that may exist in the medical process, and enhance the ability of self-protection.
Two, the treatment of medical errors
1, timely report, start the emergency response program. Once a medical incident occurs, the relevant medical institution shall immediately report to the competent department, start the emergency handling procedures, and organize professional personnel to investigate and handle the incident.
2. Protect patients' rights and interests and give reasonable compensation. When dealing with medical accidents, the rights and interests of patients should be fully protected and reasonable compensation should be given, and the legitimate rights and interests of medical institutions should also be respected.
3, serious accountability, severe punishment of those responsible. For the occurrence of medical accidents, we should seriously investigate the responsibility of the relevant personnel and severely punish those responsible, in order to maintain medical order and social justice.
4, summarize the lessons learned and improve preventive measures. After dealing with a medical accident, it is necessary to summarize the lessons learned in a timely manner and improve the preventive measures to prevent similar accidents from occurring again.