Surgery: Ethics and Colombian Legislation — Medico-Legal Treatise

Surgery · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Análisis exhaustivo de la responsabilidad médica, la Lex Artis ad hoc, la jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema y Constitucional de Colombia, y el marco disciplinario aplicado al acto quirúrgico.

What it covers

1. Surgery: Ethics and Colombian Legislation
2. Principles and Virtues of the Surgeon
3. · Universal Bioethical Principles Applied to Surgery
4. · The Ethical Duality of the Surgeon: Operator and Trustee
5. Law 23 of 1981 and Regulatory Decrees
6. · Analysis of Critical Articles Applied to Surgical Activity
7. · Medium Obligations vs. Result Obligations in Surgery
8. Informed Consent in Surgery
9. · Legal Nature and Doctrinal Evolution
10. · The Doctrine of "Qualified" or "Enhanced" Consent
11. · Legal Exceptions to Informed Consent
12. Clinical History and Professional Secret
13. · The Clinical History as an Evidence and Care Instrument
14. · Professional Secret: Constitutional Foundation
15. Civil Liability of the Surgeon
16. · The Two Regimes of Civil Liability
17. · The Four Structural Elements of Civil Liability
18. · The Doctrine of Disproportionate Harm (Res Ipsa Loquitur)
19. · Types of Damages in Compensation
20. Criminal Liability of the Surgeon
21. · Crimes of Major Relevance in Surgery
22. · The Objective Duty of Care and Objective Attribution
23. Medical Ethics Courts and Disciplinary Process
24. · Nature and Deontological Jurisdictional Structure
25. · Stages of the Ethical-Disciplinary Process
26. · Scale of Sanctions contemplated in the Law
27. Administrative and State Responsibility
28. · The State Patrimonial Responsibility Regime
29. · The Failure in the Medical-Surgical Service
30. · Repetition Action against the Surgeon
31. Surgical Patient Safety
32. · The Global Alliance for Patient Safety
33. · Management of Incidents and Adverse Events
34. · The Doctrine of System Error (Reason's Swiss Cheese Model)
35. Ethical Dilemmas in Complex and Oncological Surgery
36. · Decision Making in Borderline Surgery
37. · Advance Directives Document (DVA)
38. Ethics in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery
39. · The Legal Framework of Aesthetic Surgery in Colombia
40. · Professional Intrusion and Special Qualifications
41. Emergency Surgery, Triage and Transplants
42. · The Mandatory nature of Emergency Care in Surgery
43. · Surgical Triage in Catastrophe and Pandemic Scenarios
44. · The Regulation of Transplants in Colombia: Law 1805 of 2016
45. The Surgeon before the Euthanasia and Abortion Law
46. · The Fundamental Right to a Dignified Death in Colombia
47. · Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE)
48. · Conscientious Objection and its Limits in Surgery
49. Expert Aspects and Legal Defense
50. · Scientific Evidence in Judicial Liability Processes
51. · Strategies for the Legal Defense of the Surgeon