Plastic surgery professional misconduct: a cross-sectional study on cases between 2008 and 2017, filed before the Sao Paulo State Medical Board

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Autores da FMUP

  • Rui Manuel Lopes Nunes

    Autor

Participantes de fora da FMUP

  • Mariani, PC
  • Constantino, CF

Unidades de investigação

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In plastic surgery, a lack of ethical and moral behavior by professionals can result in unfortunate circumstances and can justify ethical-disciplinary procedures. OBJECTIVE: To review 421 plastic surgery professional-misconduct cases filed before the Sao Paulo State Medical Board (CREMESP) between 2008 and 2017. DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional study conducted in a medical council. METHODS: The cases were categorized according to sex, age, medical specialty (plastic surgery, other field or none), medical ethics code chapter(s) involved, ethics code articles violated and board ruling/outcome. RESULTS: Most of the defendants were men over 40 years of age who were experienced in their professional practice and who graduated from public and private universities all over Brazil; 47.74% had a specialist title in plastic surgery. Violation of professional responsibility (medical malpractice, recklessness or negligence) was the commonest complaint (28.43%), followed by medical advertising (24.19%) and poor doctor-patient relationship (10.39%), in violation of articles 18, 51, 75 and 1. Among the 233 cases adjudicated over this period, 133 resulted in disciplinary sanction, 80 were ruled in the physician's favor and 20 were dismissed. CONCLUSION: Classification of plastic surgery professional-misconduct cases creates possibilities for adopting preventive measures for good practice in this specialty, which would consequently reduce the number of complaints to the regional medical boards.

Dados da publicação

ISSN/ISSNe:
1516-3180, 1806-9460

Sao Paulo Medical Journal  Associacao Paulista de Medicina

Tipo:
Article
Páginas:
635-642
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Keywords

  • Process assessments, health care; Ethics, medical; Surgery, plastic

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