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Covid-19 and medical liability: challenges of an unknown disease that became a pandemic

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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2020): Bioética y Veracidad

Abstract

The coronavirus health-emergency shows that liability schemes need to discriminate the conceptual instruments available to address a new disease that, additionally, has become a pandemic. This article argues that, regarding new diseases, a fault-based liability schemes prevents health providers from being held liable for consequences that could not have been foreseen or avoided according to the state of knowledge of science. Besides, regarding the public health problem, any liability judgment must take into account changes to the medical lex artis; distinguishing also the eventual liability of health providers from the one that belongs to the authority in charge of the response to the pandemic.

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Medical liability, covid-19, lex artis, development risk defence, loss of a chance, lack of service, public health

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Cárdenas Villarreal, H., & Pérez Saavedra, M. A. (2020). Covid-19 and medical liability: challenges of an unknown disease that became a pandemic. Acta Bioethica, 26(2), pp. 155–164. Retrieved from https://revistamusicalchilena.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/59885
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