115 Union of Turkish Bar Associations Review 2022 Hacı KARA In the 13th article of the Turkish Medical Association’s Code of Professional Ethics, medical practice is defined as any kind of physician intervention that does not seem appropriate for the event, due to the lack of due diligence in accordance with the standard of medical science, that is, the professional rules and experience generally recognized and accepted in medical science. Therefore, failure to follow the standard practice during the diagnosis and treatment of the patient, lack of knowledge and skills and not applying appropriate treatment to the patient are considered as medical malpractice. Medical practice errors, non-compliance with the standard of care for the treatment of the patient, lack of skill, negligence in providing care to the patient, the intervention foreseen and/or applied by the health care personnel during the delivery of the health service, the patient’s illness going out of the normal course as a result of the faulty medical technique used, the decrease in the quality of life means that there is an increase in the number of patients (morbidity)3 diagnosed with a certain disease and that diseases can even result in death (mortality).4,5 Medical malpractice is basically divided into four parts, depending on medical treatment, negligence and practice: diagnosis, treatment, preventive treatment and other errors. Diagnostic errors arise due to the application of wrong and/or invalid tests and techniques, misapplication or interpretation of appropriate tests, incomplete or delayed diagnosis, resulting in misdiagnosis, inadequate and wrong treatment resulting in treatment errors. Treatment errors may be in the form of incorrect or inadequate treatment, or it may be related to the choice of surgical intervention technique and delaying the treatment due to the error in the dose of the drug applied. Preventive treatment errors, on 3 The number (or proportion) of patients diagnosed and diagnosed with a particular disease within a specific group and within a specified tim–e period. http://www. floradergisi.org/ getFileContent.aspx?op=html&ref_id=53&file_name=1996-13-208-209.htm&_ pk=6621c429-dcf6-43a9-88af-54455e811987, (Date of Access: 09.09.2019). 4 The number (rate) of deaths from a particular disease in the general population. (In particular, this rate is not only the mortality rate within the cases). http://www. floradergisi.org/ getFileContent.aspx?op=html&ref_id=53&file_name=1996-13-208-209.htm&_ pk=6621c429-dcf6-43a9-88af-54455e811987, (Date of Access: 09.09.2019). 5 Özer et al, p. 394.
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