A aplicação do Código de Defesa do Consumidor às ações judiciais por alegado erro médico (The application of the code of consumer protection to claims for alleged medical malpractice)

This paper aims to analyze the medical responsibility within the context of the current doctrine and case law to demonstrate, through the analysis of legal claims for alleged medical malpractice before courts, that the rights granted to the consumers by the Code of Consumer and prerogatives of facilitating access to courts are currently applied by legal professionals to the exercise of medical activity in general, ie, both in relation to business companies - hospitals, clinics and health plans, and healthcare liberal professionals, without considering that § 4 of art. 14 of the Code of Consumer, which required the burden of proof (recklessness, negligence and malpractice) for professional liberal liability, determines a contrario sensu, the application of the rules of the Civil Code, so that also prerogatives facilitation of access to courts, tipically of consumer legislation could not be applied to the exercise of independent professional activity