090719P - OBSTETRIC COMPLICATIONS: WHO PAYS?

Paper delivered at a half-day seminar on Issues in Medical Ethics: an Islamic Perspective held at al Islam Specialist Hospital Kuala Lumpur on 19^th July 2009 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Professor King Fahad Medical College Riyadh, Professor of Epidemiology and Islamic Medicine University of Brunei and Visiting Professor of Epidemiology University of Malaya. EM: omarkasule@yahoo.com and WEB: http://omarkasule.tripod.com

1.0 DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF COMPLICATIONS

2.0 DEFINITION OF MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE AND THE STANDARD OF CARE

3.0 LEGAL PROOF OF NEGLIGENCE

4.0 ISLAMIC LAW ON BODILY INJURY