Reflexões (in)tempestivas sobre qualidade e ética médicas (ou pedaços de nós repartidos em qualidade e ética médicas)

This article adresses the philosophical, ethical and legal aspects of the substantial meaning of the medical act and the parameters to evaluate their quality. Based on an ethics of responsibility, particularly on an “ethics of sharing”, the study concludes that the quality of the medical act must be set according to an objective point of view, the only one compatible with an onto-anthropological understanding of the community and the medical practice.

A responsabilidade do Estado por actos médicos: entre a "présomption de faute" francesa e a "objectivização" espanhola – breve resenha comparativa: uma convergência de regimes?

This article aims to reveal some essential legal aspects in common of French and Spanish medical liability systems, and to highlight the key points that separate them, and the current trend of both legal and administrative regimes is approaching. Indeed, these medical liability systems, French and Spanish, reveal a pincers movement, so it is curial to say that medical liability models are now more mixed, failing to make sense to strive for "pure systems" relating with "malpractice", applying this idea mutatis mutandis to other European countries, including Portugal