TITLE:
Rethinking of the Chinese Approach to Physician Apology Legislation: From the Legislative Dilemma of Transplantation
AUTHORS:
Xueting Liang, Lei Feng
KEYWORDS:
Medical Disputes, Apology Law, Legislation, Transplant Reference
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Medical Psychology,
Vol.9 No.2,
April
30,
2020
ABSTRACT: Physician apology legislation has gradually become a new legislative measure to resolve medical conflicts and repair doctor-patient relationship in many countries outside the region. In almost all cases using voice, to calm analysis found that the legislation of our country doctors apologize transplantation may face an apology from responsibility way to large span, dispute resolution mechanism from the free will to the legislative mandate disorders significantly, from general to special legislation difficulties facing a predicament, and make an apology may make doctors in passive in the moral, intensifies the doctor-patient conflicts, etc. In order to resolve the dilemma and establish a physician apology system adapted to China’s national conditions, we should weaken the concept of apology liability through education, incorporate the elements of apology into the mediation mechanism of medical disputes, take the regulations on prevention and handling of medical disputes as a legislative breakthrough, and widely implement the patient safety system.