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In four years, the number of malpractice suits grows 140% in the STJ

03/24/2015

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In four years, the number of lawsuits filed by medical error that reached the Supreme Court (Supreme Court) by 140%. Data obtained exclusively by Estadão show that in 2010 there were 260 shares referred to court over the issue. Last year, there were 626 cases. Are cases that have been tried in state courts that pass into the higher sphere when one party enters an appeal.

In the same period, 18 had their medical records and other disenfranchised 625 received other punishments CFM (Federal Council of Medicine) for acting recklessly, malpractice or negligence, practices that characterize the medical error.

For legal experts to health, the increase in cases of medical errors reported to justice is related to the low concern of some providers and units with the quality of service.

Attorney Renata Vilhena, said that "the number of health insurance customers is increasing, but the quality is not.

- There are doctors who have to deal with timer, make multiple surgeries on the same day. It is obvious that in this way, errors are becoming more frequent.

Structural problems in hospitals, lack of labor, low wages and long working hours are appointed by the lawyer Julius Conforti also as causes of failures in medical care.

- Another important factor that explains this increase in the number of lawsuits is the astounding amount of plastic surgeries performed in Brazil.

Inspector of CFM, José Fernando Vinegar admits that there are problems in quality of service and working conditions offered to doctors, but also highlights the weight of malformation in error cases.

- The colleges have been opened without technical criteria, with no certainty that they will offer students an adequate education.


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