The Saudi medical and dental practice system has identified the medical errors that are responsible for the criminal responsibility of the doctor and specified the penalties to be applied in case of such errors:
* Not to refrain from practicing unrecognized diagnostic methods.
* Non-targeted medical work is always patient interest.
* Failure to take the patient's satisfaction with the medical work to be performed.
Ending the life of a hopeless patient.
* Aborting a pregnant woman without medical necessity.
The penalty prescribed for committing these errors:
1) A fine not exceeding fifty thousand.
2) imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
* Not to refrain from practicing unrecognized diagnostic methods.
* Non-targeted medical work is always patient interest.
* Failure to take the patient's satisfaction with the medical work to be performed.
Ending the life of a hopeless patient.
* Aborting a pregnant woman without medical necessity.
The penalty prescribed for committing these errors:
1) A fine not exceeding fifty thousand.
2) imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
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medical errors