Physicians’ Contractual Responsibility According to Sharī`a and Law

Abstract

[Translation from Arabic] This research paper aims to explain the nature of the physician responsibility for the patients whether it is a mistreatment or a personal treatment, and to explain the difference between the two treatments, the guarantee due to wrong treatment for both in the ignorant and the qualified physicians the research reached to the fact that it is a personal relation and he must warrant what he spoiled in the patient due to medical negligence.

Such a physician has to pay money and to be punished for cheating by claiming him self as a doctor. Real physician also guarantee his work if he did wrong due to his carelessness. In this case his close relatives or insurance in these days endure the money payment .In this research it was found that in Muslim countries there is a need to deal with medical errors and there is a real need for the case.