Prohibited practices Physician accordance UAE federal law 2008 medical liability amendments

Prohibited practices Physician accordance UAE federal law 2008 medical liability amendments

Prohibited practices Physician accordance UAE federal law 2008 medical liability amendments Allah creates us in this life to live happily and healthy but in this life, There’s disease, that makes us tired and exhausted, with the existence of medical profession we came back again to our previous life, the law included this profession and the physician by some rules that are needed to work properly and to achieve the demanded goals, WhatsApp: +971555570005

Prohibited practices for the Physician in accordance to UAE federal law no.10 of 2008 medical liability and its amendments

Allah creates us in this life to live happily and healthy but in this life, There’s disease, that makes us tired and exhausted, with the existence of medical profession we came back again to our previous life, the law included this profession and the physician by some rules that are needed to work properly and to achieve the demanded goals, the law prohibited the physician from some practices, that Emirati legislator stated in article 5 of the medical liability law which provided that:
Physicians are prohibited to:
1. Treat patients without their consents, except for cases requiring emergency medical treatment where it is impossible to obtain the consent for any reason, or if the patients illness is contagious or considered as threat to the public health or safety.
2. Refrain treating patients in emergency cases or discontinue the treatment in all cases, un less patients did not follow the physicians’ instructions or for the reasons beyond the physicians control. taking into account the provisions of articles 9, 10 of this Decree-Law.
3. Refrain treating patients or assisting the injured if the patient’s situation is beyond the physician competent, and in this case the physician must conduct to the patient the necessary first aid then referring him to the competent physician or to the nearest health facility if he wanted to.
4. Use unauthorized or illegal methods of treatment on patients
5. Prescribe a treatment before performing the proper clinical examination to patients, the health authorities may establish system to provide the tele-health according to the regulation and conditions specified by the executive regulation of this decree.
6. Disclose any confidential information relating to patients, as such physicians become aware of during the course of treatment or due to treatment process, whether the patients entrusted the physicians with such secrets or the physicians viewed such secrets by themselves.
This prohibition shall not be applied as follows:
• If the disclosure was upon patients’ request
• If the disclosure was for the best interest of the husband or the wife and the physicians informed any of them personally
• If the disclosure was to prevent a criminal act or to report about it. in this event, disclosure shall be reported to the official authorities only
• If the physicians were assigned by a judicial authority or an official investigation authority in the state as an expert, or if such physicians were notified to attend as a witness in an investigation or criminal proceedings.
• If the physicians were assigned to carry out an examination by a life insurance companies or by their employers. the task of the physicians shall be within the scope of their assignment.
• If it was upon a request from the health authority, and the purpose from disclosure was to protect the public interest according to the regulation and conditions of executive regulation of this decree.
• If the purpose from the disclosure is to able the physicians to defend himself before the investigation authority or any judicial authority.
7. Un less the situation necessity requires otherwise, examine patients clinically from the opposite gender without the presence of a third person and without obtaining a prior consent of patients
8. harboring patients in places not dedicated for that purpose, unless the emergency situations requires otherwise.
9. conduct sex-change operations.
10. conducting non- necessary medical operations or surgeries without the consent of the patient.

The Emirati legislator stated the articles in order to Regulate the physician’s profession according to the facilities available for the state and to help the sick people that urgently needed.

Attorney / Mohamed Al Marzooqi
Mohamed Al Marzooqi Advocates & Consultancy
Lawyer in Abu Dhabi, Dubai – UAE

Prohibited practices Physician accordance UAE federal law 2008 medical liability amendments Allah creates us in this life to live happily and healthy but in this life, There’s disease, that makes us tired and exhausted, with the existence of medical profession we came back again to our previous life, the law included this profession and the physician by some rules that are needed to work properly and to achieve the demanded goals, WhatsApp: +971555570005

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