Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

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Moshirahmadi A, Javan Jafari A, Hejazi A, Ghapanchi H. Evaluating Indices of Physicians’ Pre- Therapeutic Responsibility. IJMEHM 2020; 13 :116-130
URL: http://ijme.tums.ac.ir/article-1-6084-en.html

The possibility of mistakes, negligence, injuries and damages in medical activities could give rise to a civil or criminal case. In such cases, resorting to experts’ opinion is necessary. Forensic medicine organization has important role in such cases. Therefore, understanding of the criteria used by experts of this organization is important and could give rise to awareness of doctors and reduce their professional failures. This is a practical research with a descriptive and analytical method and its necessary information are collected by documentary studies. This investigation shows that medics normally try to have correct medical diagnosis and select appropriate process, and treat patients through reasonable methods to reduce their suffering and pains. It is possible that medics make a mistake in their diagnosis and treatment. Although the result of medical treatment are not guaranteed always, they have to do their treatment and operation according to reasonable and scientific standards and any recklessness and negligence causes criminal or civil responsibility. Reflection on the medical cases shows that the reasons of medic’s conviction can be divided into two categories including pre-treatment and post-treatment factors. Pre- treatment indices contain errors related to diagnosis or choice of treatment.