Types of liability in the exercise of the medical act

In Mexico, being health personnel and practicing the medical act entails the obligation to care for people seeking to protect their health, whether by preventive, curative, or palliative care actions, taking into account that the supreme purpose of the medical act is to preserve human life—the possible results of malpractice generated by acting with negligence, imperfection, and imprudence. The consequences range from a reparation of the damage in civil matters, a corresponding sanction in jurisdictional aspects, and the imposition of penalties in criminal liability. Identifying the type of obligations that health personnel must assume to determine malpractice is relevant. Medicine, being a professional with technical preparation, has rules for its practice that, following the state of knowledge of this science, set the guidelines within which health personnel must perform, and this is what is known as the lex artis