Civil Liability in Plastic Surgery

Abstract

 This paper analyzes the jurisprudential doctrine regarding the delimitation of the civil liaility in the damages caused by medical malpractice in plastic surgery. For this, the applicable regulations and the legal issues of greatest judicial controversy such as: the extension of the duties of information on the risks of the intervention and the consequences of the breach of that duty, the legal nature of the obligation and its jurisprudential evolution in relation to the obligation to provide means, and the theory of disproportionate harm as presumption of malpractice of the surgeon unless proven otherwise.