法官制定法律和司法能动主义的宪法授权:伊丽莎白·瓦阿诉利斯特医院和生育中心案的个案研究

I. Norman, M. Aikins, F. Binka, D. N. Banyubala, Ama K. Edwin
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伊丽莎白·瓦阿诉利斯特医院和生育中心一案提出了许多令人信服的伦理问题。这些包括医患关系、健康记录的所有权以及医生对患者的信托义务。它还质疑加纳法院在对医务人员施加信义义务方面采取的积极态度,以及对违反这种信义义务可采取的补救措施。最后,它调查了司法能动主义是否应该被接受为加纳司法行政的必然结果。我们同意Vaah案件的结果,即Elizabeth Vaah有权从Lister医院获得她的医疗记录副本。然而,我们不同意在拟订这项决定时所采用的方法。这一决定将为患者律师寻求甚至可能不存在的患者记录的进一步诉讼打开闸门。这一决定将给加纳本已受到严重挑战的医疗保健提供系统带来额外负担。这项调查研究包括对判例法、1992年《加纳宪法》以及加纳和其他普通法管辖区关于制作病人记录问题的其他医学法律著作进行文献和文献审查。在互联网上进行了一次电子搜索,搜索词是精心设计的,如"加纳的医疗事故"、"司法行动主义"、"涉及拒绝公布医疗记录的医疗事故案件"、"病人要求提供医疗记录导致法庭案件"。研究表明,法院的决定是基于先例,不支持Vaah v. Lister的事实基础,并可能削弱Vaah v. Lister作为一个合格的先例案件。它还表明,国家法律框架的医患关系是薄弱的。缺乏关于获取、储存和挖掘卫生信息的国家立法。这就构成了一个复杂的司法框架,用于执行反对滥用隐私和获取病人健康信息的权利的法律。因此,应该制定关于隐私和健康信息的法律,以增强对加纳医疗保健服务系统的信任。
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The Constitutional Mandate for Judge-Made-Law and Judicial Activism: A Case Study of the Matter of Elizabeth Vaah v. Lister Hospital and Fertility Centre
The case of Elizabeth Vaah v. Lister Hospital and Fertility Centre presents many compelling ethical issues. These include the Physician-Patient relationship, ownership of Health Records and the fiduciary duties of the Physician to the patient. It also questions the pro-active approach of the Court in Ghana regarding the imposition of fiduciary duties on medical staff, and the remedies available for breach of such fiduciary duty. Lastly, it investigates whether judicial activism should be accepted as the inevitable consequence of the administration of justice in Ghana. We agree with the outcome of the Vaah case that Elizabeth Vaah is entitled to a copy of her medical record from Lister Hospital. We however disagree with the approach used in formulating the decision. The decision would open the floodgate for further litigation by patient's counsel seeking patient records that may not even exist. The decision would place an additional burden on the already severely challenged healthcare delivery system in Ghana. This investigative study consisted of a literature and documentary review of case law, the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and other medico-legal writings from Ghana and other common-law jurisdictions on the issue of the production of patient records. An electronic internet search was conducted with carefully designed phrases like, "medical malpractice in Ghana", "judicial activism", "medical malpractice cases involving refusal to release medical records", "patient request of medical records resulting in court cases". The study revealed that the decision of the court was based on precedents that did not support the factual basis of Vaah v. Lister and may weaken Vaah v. Lister as a competent precedential case. It also showed that the national legal framework for the Physician-Patient relationship is weak. There is the lack of national legislation on the capture, storage and mining of health information. This presents a complicated adjudicatory framework for the enforcement of the law against the abuse of privacy and the right to patient's health information. Therefore, the law on privacy and health information should be developed to enhance trust in the healthcare delivery system of Ghana.
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