The Meaningo fmedical malpracticemintheperspective of Human Rightsin Indonesia

Abstract

ABSTRACT:-patient to solve all their medical problems regardless of the illness, organ, ages, and genders, and as much as possible, thoroughly, completely, continuously and in coordination and collaboration with other health professionals, using the principle of effective and efficient services and uphold the professional responsibilities, legal, ethical and moral. The service is limited to the convening of basic medical competence acquired during medical education. The meaning of malpractices (error practice) of medical profession in the perspective of human rights is still unclear. This research was normative research by studying and analyzing law and health materials. Human rights are inherited rights in humans since their birth as a human being. Those rights conclude: right to life, right to health care, and the right to self-determination. Medical malpractice is the failure of the doctor to meet the standard medical treatment to the patient's disease, or a lack of skills or negligence in providing treatment for the patients, causing harm and injury to the patients. Medical malpractice may also be interpreted as any kind of wrongdoing, or negligence of doctors in treating patients which are not in line with the norms prevailing medical practices which may cause injury and/or harms to patients, even death, so as to violate the patient's human rights.