KMID : 1234820140150020003
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Korean Society of Law and Medicine 2014 Volume.15 No. 2 p.3 ~ p.29
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A Study of the Medical Practice and the Right of Patients to Self-determination - Focusing on Supreme Court Decision 2009DO14407 Delivered on June 24, 2014 -
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Kim Young-Tae
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Abstract
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The Supreme Court made a decision that the doctor cannot be punished for not taking a blood transfusion to the patient, depending on the patient¡¯s will to refuse the blood transfusion on June 24, 2014. The reason is that, in a special situation of conflict between the right of patients to self-determination and the duty of care, and when it was impossible to compare whether which has the superior value, if the doctor made a medical practice to respect either of those two values according to the professional sense, he cannot be punished. In principle, the doctor should make medical practices according to the patient¡¯s will. However, if the patient¡¯s life was at stake, I think, the doctor is obliged to try his best to save the life of patient. Yet to entrust the patient¡¯s life to the doctors professional sense, is to give up the obligation of the country to protect lives. In this regard, I think that the Supreme Court Decision should be reviewed, and that an ongoing research is needed.
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KEYWORD
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Medical practice, The right of patients to self-determination, Refusing the blood transfusion, The right to live, The obligation of the country to protect lives
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