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KMID : 1234820200210020037
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Korean Society of Law and Medicine
2020 Volume.21 No. 2 p.37 ~ p.73
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The Legal Interest of Doctor’s Duty to Inform and the Compensation to Damages for Non-pecuniary Loss
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Yi Jae-Kyeong
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Abstract
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Medical practice with medical adaptability is not illegal. Consent to medical practice is also not intended to exclude causes of Illegality. The patient’s consent to medical practice is the exercise of the right to self-determination, and the patient’s right to self-determination is take shape through the doctor’s information. If a doctor violates his duty to inform, failure to inform or lack of inform constitutes an act of illegality of omission in itself. As a result, the legal interest of self-determination is violated. The patient has the right to know and make decisions on his or her own, even when it is not connected to the benefit of life and body as the subject of the body. If that infringed and lost, the non-property damage shall be recognized and the immaterial damage must be compensated.
On the other hand, the violation of the duty of information does not belong to deny the compensation for physical damage. Which the legal interest violated by violation of the obligation to inform is the self-determination, and loss of opportunity of choice is recognized as ordinary damage.
However, if the opportunity of choice was lost because of the infringement of the right to self-determination and the patient could not choice the better way, that dose not occur plainly bad results, under the prove of these causal relationship, that bad results could be compensated. But the unexpectable damage could not be compensated, because the physical damage is considered as the special damage due to the violation of the right of the self-determination.
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KEYWORD
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Duty of information, The physical damage, The loss of opportunity, The right of self-determination, Compensation to damages for non- pecuniary loss
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