6. Legal issues with the treatment of scars and keloids from the
view of “condition sine qua non”
Tomoyuki Hisa1,2,3, Hironobu Yanagie2,3, Masazumi
Eriguchi3,4
1:Second Department of Pathology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan
2:The University of Tokyo Research Center for Advanced Science and
Technology, Tokyo, Japan
3:The University of Tokyo Hospital Cooperative Unit of Medicine and
Engineering Research, Tokyo, Japan
4:Showa University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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Recently, the Japanese doctor-patient relationship has become more
sophisticated. Accordingly, the number of legal cases is also
increasing. Therefore, not only patients, but also doctors, should
acquire appropriate legal knowledge. Japanese criminal law is based on
“condition sine qua non.” In this paper, we discuss the criminal
responsibilities of doctors. |