Assessment of knowledge and attitude of some medical professionals toward medical negligence

Abstract

Medical law is a legal discipline, aimed to regulating hospital-social communication1. Medical professionals with special legal capacity harmed client's health as a result of substandard medical care due to improper action performance of the contracted medical duty without a valid reason, it is regulated in accordance with the new wording of Article 15 of the Criminal Code of Mongolia or the Law on Prosecution2. The study design was descriptive analytical research method. A total of 67 physicians were interviewed to assess the ‘Medical Professionals Ethical training’ and the ‘Assessment of knowledge and attitude of some medical professionals toward medical negligence’. Also 17 crimes committed by medical workers registered in the information network shuukh.mn since 2016 have been considered. Result: ‘Medical Professionals Ethical training’ – ‘’Enough’’. Surgeons and gyn/obstetricians know better knowledge and attitude than other specialists to "medical negligence." Since 2016, Shuukh.mn has registered 17 cases with 23 defendants, which are medical professionals. Six of them are obstetricians. Conclusion: All medical professionals have sufÏcient knowledge and attitude to medical negligence, but try to avoid to take risky steps.