The position of a doctor in cases of violence attack commited by a patient from the point of view of juristic theory.
There is no doubt, that the medical staff has often to face aggressive patients, their threats and event their violent physical attacks today. More frequently than ever they are faced with the necessity to think over and consider very carefully the way to defend against imminent or persistent attack on them. First, I would attempt to qualify patients' aggressive behaviour - from lesser acts, when the violent attack is not imminent, through threatening with killing, inflicting aggravated bodily harm or causing exceptionally serious damage or enforcement by violence, the threat of violence or the threat of causing another serious damage, to do something, to desist from doing something or tolerate something. to the imminent or persistent attack. Then I would try to describe the best ones of possible ways of self-defence against various levels of aggressive behaviour.
Adamus
Karel
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Department of Forensic Medicine and Medical Law, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, Hnevotínská 3, Olomouc, 775 15, Czech Republic. Karel.Adamus@seznam.cz
D000374:Aggression; D003416:Criminal Law; D018153:Czech Republic; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D014754:Violence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*