Vincent R. Johnson, The Importance of Doctor Liability in Medical Malpractice Law: China Versus the United States, 10 St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 2 (2020).
Abstract
Medical malpractice law in China does not work. Disappointed patients and their families, or the gangs they hire, frequently resort to physical violence, beating up doctors and disrupting hospital activities in order to extort settlements. This happens because Chinese law has failed to provide viable remedies to many victims of medical malpractice.
This dysfunctional situation (medical chaos or yinao) has persisted for more than two decades. Today, parents in China discourage their children from attending medical school because practicing medicine is too dangerous.
Reforming Chinese medical malpractice law will be difficult...
