Resumen

DAVILA RODRIGUEZ, Abraham Amiud. Defensive medicine. Preventable?. Cir. gen [online]. 2018, vol.40, n.1, pp.54-60. ISSN 1405-0099.

In recent years, the practice of both private and institutional medicine has changed, not only because of scientific and technological breakthroughs, but also because of the increase in complaints and medical malpractice suits, which has resulted in a broken doctor-patient relationship, generating suspicion, dissatisfaction, complaints and, thus, the practice of defensive medicine, which is defined as “the use of diagnostic-therapeutic procedures with the explicit purpose of avoiding malpractice lawsuits”, where health professionals adopt criteria to modify their daily medical practice when they identify patients as potential plaintiffs.

Palabras llave : Defensive medicine; demands; professional ethics.