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

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•      2^nd – Karachi (Pakistan) May 1983

•      2^nd - Khartoum (Sudan) Dec 1983

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•      17^th – Islamabad (Pakistan) 2000

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•      19^th – KL (Malaysia) 2002

•      20^th – Johannesburg (South Africa) 2003

•      21^st – Amman (Jordan) 2004

•      22^nd – Sanaa’ (Yemen) 2005

•      23^rd – Jogjakarta (Indonesia) 2006

•      24^th – Istanbul (Turkey) 2007

•      25^th – Marrakesh (Morocco) 2008

•      26^th – Khartoum (Sudan) 2009

•      27^th – Beirut (Lebanon) 2010

•      28^th – Jakarta (Indonesia) 2011

•      29^th – Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) 2012

•      30^th – Capetown (South Africa) 2013

•      31^st- Arusha  (Tanzania) 2014

•      32^nd- Makasar (Indonesia) 2015

•      33^rd- Abuja (Nigeria) 2016

•      34^th- Istanbul (Turkey) 2017

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