Surgery: Ethics and Colombian Legislation — Medico-Legal Treatise

Surgery · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Exhaustive analysis of medical liability, the Lex Artis ad hoc, the jurisprudence of the Supreme and Constitutional Court of Colombia, and the disciplinary framework applied to the surgical act.

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 Guarding
50. · Scientific Evidence in Judicial Liability Processes
51. · Strategies for the Legal Defense of the Surgeon