The Code of Medical Ethics is expressed when determining that the doctor, and only him, is responsible for choosing the treatment of his patient. Even more: the professional should always use the best of scientific progress in favor of his patient.<\/p>\n
Article 1 of resolution CFM 1642\/2002 establishes that: \u201cHealth insurance companies, group medicine companies, medical work cooperatives, self-management companies or others that act in the form of direct provision or intermediation of medical-hospital services must follow the following principles in their relationship with doctors and users : (The) respect the autonomy of the doctor and the patient in relation to the choice of diagnostic and therapeutic methods<\/u><\/strong><\/em>.\u201d.<\/p>\n The foundation for the free exercise of the profession, therefore, stems from the Legislation elaborated by the CFM itself on the subject: the doctor not only can but must exercise his office with autonomy and independence, with a view to the best interest of his patient.<\/p>\n The understanding manifested by the Courts across the country is not discrepant: it is up to the doctor \u2013 without any interference from health plan operators \u2013 to choose the best treatment that will be given to his patient, since he is the professional technically qualified for that.<\/p>\n CBR Legal Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Code of Medical Ethics is expressed when determining that the doctor, and only him, is responsible for choosing the treatment of his patient. Even more: the professional should always use the best of scientific progress in favor of his patient. Article 1 of resolution CFM 1642\/2002 establishes that: \u201cHealth insurance companies, of \u2026 Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[771,772,72,50,665],"class_list":["post-22208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assunto-legal","tag-assessoria-juridica-cbr","tag-assistencia-a-saude","tag-assunto-legal","tag-cbr","tag-cbr_radiologia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51143,"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions\/51143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbr.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}