title: [Medical error in "alternative medicine" cases].
abstract: The author presented the medico-legal problems referring to opinionating cases of so-called "alternative medicine". In Poland people who work in the field of "alternative medicine" are left unpunished when their therapy was ineffective or even caused a decline in the patient's health.
authors.affiliation: Katedry Medycyny Sadowej Collegium Medicum UJ w Krakowie.
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Konopka
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland; D016896:Treatment Outcome