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