ОБАВЕЗНА ПАТОЛОШКА ОБДУКЦИЈА KAO ВИД КОНТРОЛЕ РАДА ЛЕКАРА
PHYSYCIAN’S MISTAKE AND THE NECESSARY PATHOLOGICAL AUTOPSY

Summary/Abstract: One of the ways to reveal a professional mistake of a physician is autopsy which, due to its medical and social importance, can offer an insight into the work of a physician. Autopsy represents the most secure method for accurate and unerring determining the cause of death, regardless its being a pathological or legal-medical autopsy. Pathological autopsy firstly has a controlling function since it enables a regular control of work of medical staff and medical institutions. Pathological autopsy enables an indirect revealing of professional mistakes during a treatment. Comparing the clinical and autopsy findings can offer a real insight into the accuracy of a determined medical diagnosis and confirm the existence and scope of a possible medial professional mistake. Pathological autopsy reveals a possible existence of a professional mistake, its seriousness and caused consequences, as well as reasons which caused the mistake. According to this information, a conclusion can be brought later about a possibly caused damage as a consequence of the medical mistake and responsibility for its existence. Although the autopsy being the most valuable source of information regarding the real cause of death, either its being about the illness that can not be cured or stopped, wrong diagnosis, health disorder that has not been noticed, a mistake in treatment or inadequate treatment, and although the law clearly determines cases in which autopsy is obligatory, in real life there are often situations in which autopsy is not performed although this does not suit either the physicians or health services, medical science or family ofthe passed away person.

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