IMPORTANCE OF FORENSIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION IN THE CIVIL COURT OF COMPENSATION FOR HARM CAUSED BY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
The importance of high-quality and timely medical care in the context of the right to life and health cannot be overestimated. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Improper fulfillment or refusal to perform professional duties by medical workers, violating the citizens’ right to medical care, guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, threatens the life and health of people. The doctor-patient relationship is, by its nature, not about equality. In such a relationship, the weak side is the patient. Anyone who becomes a patient is at greater risk of falling victim to the harmful behavior of a medical professional. The main causes of defects in the provision of medical services are subjective factors: frivolous, negligent attitude of medical workers towards the performance of their professional duties, lack of caring and attentive attitude towards patients. The subsequent changes in the structure of court cases determine the relevance of a forensic medical examination in civil cases, which, by its legal nature, has some differences from examination in a criminal process.