MEDICÍNSKO-PRÁVNÍ ASPEKTY PRINCIPU "DE LEGE ARTIS MEDICINAE"

The paper deals with the issue of providing the healthcare in accordance with de lege artis medicinae principle. It is the most important principle realized during performance of any medical treatment in the process of healthcare providing. The medical profession shall be understood primarily as a mission. Each healthcare employee should follow the primary goal of his/her profession, i.e. to perform the healthcare in the best possible way to cure the patients and relieve their suffering and pain, and the all other pathological effects of a disease. The performance of healthcare profession is often associated with the misconduct by healthcare employees and with the performance of medical treatment by non de lege artis me- dicinae principle