Distinguishing between medical incidents and medical accidents

Understanding the distinction to safeguard patients’ rights

In healthcare, particularly in cosmetic surgery, it is essential to clearly differentiate between a “medical incident” and a “medical adverse event” to accurately assess the situation and determine responsibility.

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Definition of Medical Incidents and Medical Complications

In the realm of healthcare, distinguishing between "medical incidents" and "medical complications" is vital for accurate evaluation and responsibility assignment.

Medical Incident: This refers to any unwanted situation that arises during diagnosis, care, or treatment due to either objective or subjective factors. Importantly, it is not a natural progression of the disease or related to the patient's condition, but it still impacts the patient's health or life.

Medical Complication: A medical incident becomes a complication when it causes harm to the patient's health or life due to specific reasons, such as:

Unforeseen risks that occur despite adherence to established medical standards. expertise in examination and treatment.
Technical errors that require full disclosure based on the incident report. report this.

Video processing convex nasal cartilage of Dr Nguyen Giap

Distinguishing Medical Incidents from Medical Complications

Criteria	Medical Incident:	Medical Complication:
Causes	Factors objective or subjective, not due to variable nature of the disease	Unintended risks or flaws technical expertise
Level of influence	Can affect the health of the sick	Cause serious harm to the health or life of the patient
Liability	Depending on the cause and degree of influence	Can lead to compensation liability if due to flaws technical expertise

Legal liability for medical incidents and medical accidents

According to Article 590 of the 2015 Civil Code, when a medical incident or medical accident occurs, the medical examination and treatment facility is responsible for compensating the patient for damages, including:

Reasonable cost for the cure, fostering, rehabilitating health.
Real income is lost or diminished by the damage.
Reasonable expenses and the actual income lost of people take care of the damage.
Other damage due to law regulations.

In addition, the person responsible for compensation must also compensation a sum of money to another to compensate for mental damage that he suffered.

The story of dr. Tran Nguyen Giap: the evidence for the global market and professional liability

Doctor Tran Nguyen Giap, specialist II in cosmetic plastic surgery, former lecturer at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, is one of the leading experts in the field of cosmetic surgery in Vietnam.

In the process of practicing, Armor doctor who has ever faced the unwanted situation. However, instead of dodging, he chose the opposite way, and cooperation with regulatory authorities, expressing the spirit of the market and responsibilities to the profession.

Through this, this is an opportunity for Dr. Giap to re-evaluate his entire career, tighten professional standards, and be ready to return with a better, more professional version.

Video Doctor Nguyen Giap re-examination for customers to create shaped abdomen

Conclusion

A clear distinction between medical incidents and medical accidents helps us have a more objective and fair view of situations occurring in the medical field. At the same time, a correct understanding of legal responsibilities will help protect the rights of patients and improve the quality of medical services.