Patients can settle within the hospital, go to the Medical Adjustment Commission for mediation, or go to court. This actually involves three ways of handling medical disputes: settlement, mediation and litigation.
1, you can ask the hospital department or the doctor in question, explain, explain the condition, understand the hospital to the patient's entire treatment process, for the future litigation or mediation to get ready for.
2, mediation, here mainly refers to the medical mediation committee under the auspices of the two sides based on voluntary processing. The same such dispute resolution, also subject to the limitations of the amount of compensation, the two sides of the differences between the controversy, the patient demanded a higher amount of compensation is not applicable.
3, litigation is the last way, but also the most authoritative way to resolve the dispute is a final decision, but also the most time-consuming, labor-intensive way to solve the problem.
"Regulations for the Prevention and Handling of Medical Disputes" Article 22 of the medical dispute, doctors and patients can be resolved through the following ways:?
(a) voluntary negotiation between the two sides;?
(2) apply for people's mediation;?
(3) apply for administrative mediation;?
(iv) Litigation in the People's Court;?
(v) other means provided by laws and regulations.?
Expanded Information:
Information on reconciliation and mediation between doctors and patients
1, doctors and patients choose to negotiate to resolve medical disputes, should be negotiated in a special place, shall not affect the normal medical order. If the number of doctors and patients is large, representatives should be elected for consultation, and the number of representatives of each party shall not exceed five.
Consultation to resolve medical disputes should adhere to the principle of voluntary, lawful and equal, respect for the rights of the parties concerned, and respect for the objective facts. Doctors and patients shall express their opinions and demands in a civilized and rational manner, and shall not act in violation of the law.?
Negotiation to determine the amount of compensation should be based on facts, to prevent abnormally high or low. For medical disputes with large differences or high claim amounts, doctors and patients are encouraged to resolve them through the people's mediation route.
Doctors and patients reached agreement after consultation, should sign a written settlement agreement.?
2, apply for people's mediation of medical disputes, by both the doctor and the patient **** with the application to the people's mediation committee of medical disputes; one party applies for mediation, the people's mediation committee of medical disputes in the consent of the other party to mediate.?
The applicant may apply for mediation in writing or orally. If the application is in writing, the application shall contain the basic situation of the applicant, the disputed matters and reasons for applying for mediation; if the application is made orally, the people's mediator for medical disputes shall record the basic situation of the applicant, the disputed matters and reasons for applying for mediation on the spot, and the applicant's signature shall be confirmed.
When a people's mediation committee for medical disputes learns of a major medical dispute within a medical institution, it can take the initiative to work to guide both doctors and patients to apply for mediation.?
China.gov.cn - Regulations on the Prevention and Handling of Medical Disputes