Dear All,
Assalam Alaikum
This is a short summary report about a conference in Kuwait on March 26-28, 2015, under title:
PHYSICIANS’ ERRORS AND RESPONSIBILITY
vOrganizers: Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS), with its record of discussions and publications in the area of medical bioethics and in Islamic Medicine.
vCollaborators: Islamic International Fiqh Council, WHO, Muslim Word League.
vParticipants: Physicians / scientists and scholars in Jurisprudence Fiqh, from many countries (Arabic Language used).
My presentation was titled the same as the theme above.
Main topics discussed:
( 1 ) Physicians errors – An overview.
( 2) Medical and Fiqh perspectives on physicians’ errors in:
§ Internal Medicine.
§ Surgery, including: Plastic surgery.
§ Anesthesia.
§ Obstetrics and Gynecology.
§ Psychiatry.
(3) Confidentiality.
(4) Situations where there is exemption from obtaining informed patient consent.
(5) Contemporary Law Standing on medical errors.
(6) Malpractice insurance, including the relatively new concepts of:
§ Mutual (or joint) solidarity-based.
§ Arbitration-based.
(7) Recommendations of the conference.
These concepts may be subjects for future FIMA conferences.
Sincerely yours,
Aly
