The publisher Del Rey released the book Code of Ethics and Professional Medical Procedure and its Application from Décio Policastro. Few know what to do when you suffer the consequences of a breach of medical ethics. How to report and to whom? And the doctor how to defend himself before a complaint just or unjust?
Often the doctor and the injured being aware of the mechanics of disciplinary procedures. It is these rules that the author comments in an easy to understand language, in a simple and synthetic approach. Who has the power to impose penalties; priority in dealing with cases; distinction between inquiry and the ethical process; reconciliation; resources; prescription of criminality; interdiction of the profession; review of the conviction and rehabilitation of physician punished are the basic themes of the book, followed by the guidelines of the Federal Medical Council for submitting complaints and guidelines for the trial sessions in the Superior Court of Ethics.
The book has the full text of the Code of Professional Ethics with amended by CFM Resolution No 1953, from 9/14/2010, the main rules governing the Federal Medical Council, its Regional Councils and Committees of Ethics. It also contains the Precedents used in disciplinary proceedings by the Regional Council of Medicine of São Paulo, and those tried in Superior Court on procedural Medical Ethics and the Courts.