Вasics of Professional Interaction of Doctors: Cases of Combination and Separation

Abstract

On the basis of international and national normative acts, the ethical norms of interaction of doctors with each other are highlighted. The limits of intervention in the process of providing medical care to the patient by the attending physician and cases of involvement of other specialists in the treat- ment process are analyzed. The cases of the necessity of convening a doctor’s council in the provision of a specific type of medical care are considered on the example of the provisions of normative legal acts. It has been established: the timely detection of medical errors and criticism of the doctor’s actions in the correct form gives a positive result for achieving an effective health care system and establishing the principle of priority provision of the patient’s right to protection of life and health; remarks and assessment of another doctor’s actions should not have the purpose of belittling his work or luring patients; frank neglect of one’s duties, unscrupulous and poor-quality provision of medical care to the patient must be recorded and stopped, including by fel- low