Odpowiedzialność zawodowa lekarzy ratownictwa medycznego. Przegląd wybranych spraw w Okręgowym Sądzie Lekarskim Wielkopolskiej Izby Lekarskiej
The Professional Responsibility of EMS Medical Practitioners. A Review of Selected Cases in the District Medical Court of the Wielkopolska Section of the Chamber of Physicians and Dentists

Summary/Abstract: The paper reviews the decisions of the Supreme Medical Court in 2007. The selected verdicts are treated as case studies in the interpretation of regulations on proceedings pertaining to the professional responsibility of medical practitioners. The verdicts presented in the paper concern suchissues as the formal requirements of an application for penalty, the motion to exclude an SMCmember from the panel, investigative proceedings, the opinion of expert witnesses, the definitionof continued offence (delictum continuatum), the rights of the injured party, the right of defense,the principle of free appraisal of evidence, faulty verdicts, penalties, the statute oflimitations, and the reopening of a case and its costs. An analysis of the verdicts allows us to concludethat the standards of SMC decisions are rising. Although erroneous verdicts are given, themajority of SMC verdicts are issued correctly.

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