Liability of the physician in the practice of dysthanasia

Abstract

Medical liability is nowadays characterized by the wrongful conduct of the physician, the causal link betweenthis and the damage suffered by the victim. Having founded on the medical paternalism, many terminally illpatients suffer the consequences of medical futility, which entails in a painful and inhumane death. Based onthese assumptions, the article aims to consider the liability of the physician in the practice of futility. To achievethis goal, and with a literature research of relevant material to the issue performed,, a hypothetical clinicalcase was elaborated to better guide the discussion. It was concluded that there is liability for the practice ofmedical futility, since it is through this that are established damage to the terminal patient, which alone willsubtract the right to a dignified and human death.