Antonio Lázaro Sánchez, Consultant Medical Oncologist at Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, shared on LinkedIn:
“Medicine and Health Law: Towards a Necessary Integration of Clinical and Legal Knowledge
The growing complexity of medical practice poses challenges that transcend the strictly healthcare field and require an increasingly close dialogue between medicine, law and scientific research.
Issues such as health responsibility, loss of opportunity for care, the assessment of harm or inequalities in access to treatment require multidisciplinary approaches capable of integrating clinical knowledge, scientific evidence and legal reasoning.
From my career in medical oncology and clinical research, I have been orienting part of my academic and professional activity towards the study of these issues, through specialized training, expert activity and the development of doctrinal work in Health Law.
I consider it especially relevant to move towards models of medico-legal analysis that allow us to address causality, prognostic uncertainty and the quantification of damage more rigorously, avoiding interpretations that do not adequately reflect the complexity of the healthcare reality.
In this new line of work, I hope to contribute to the academic and professional debate, share reflections and establish spaces for collaboration with those who, from law, legal medicine and health sciences, work to improve the quality of decisions and the protection of patients’ rights.
Legal rigour in the healthcare field needs to include medical evidence, just as responsible medicine needs to be aware of the legal implications of its decisions.”
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