의료과오의 형사적 책임 - 의사의 주의의무를 中心으로 -

A Study on the Criminal Responsibility in the Medical Malpractice - centering around a attention duty in a doctor -

Medical care is considered as one of the most important in the field in the natural science. In modern society, medical science achieved great advance due to the astonishing development of natural science. On the other hand, we face more danger in medical care, because doctors should adopt more technical surgery medicine with side effect and complicated instrument. When medical accident arise, doctor can be charged civil responsibility or criminal responsibility. Medical care is justified in criminal law as professional activity. Medical malpractice is defied as the neglect of duty in the process of medical care. Ahead, deals with criminal negligence in general negligence in criminal law is failure to take care or precautions to prevent the crime. It studies the theorical development in negligence. And the essence of negligence is in the carelessness not in the ignorance of the fact. And we analyze care at large to foresee the crime and to prevent it. We found the basis of care in the law and regulation itself and practice. The next, deals with medical malpractice, it studies the speciality of medical care; risk, collaboration, discretion and technical skill. Negligence, in particular is defined as the omission to do something which a resonable man guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing of something that a reasonable and prudent man would not do. The reasonable man becomes the duly careful member of the profession.