응급의료상의 의사의 전의의무

In general, the Duty of Consulting and Reference to Patients could be a problem in several types. Those are between medical occupations, medical organizations, medical specialists and non-specialists, medical specialists in the same field. However, the Duty of Consulting and Reference to Patients would become a legal problem in case that the patients was able to avoid a bad result as long as they were consulted and referred to the appropriate doctors and medical facilities in an emergency. In emergency medical service, there need to be quick and proper decisions before the medical treatments are conducted because most of the patients are in critical and changeable conditions. Therefore, in the process of consulting and reference, there has to be correct explanations and the doctors, sender and receiver, have the responsibility to share the medical informations about the conditions of patients. Although it could be criticized because the informations are not exchanged enough between the doctors, sender and receiver, due to restricted time in an emergency, it is granted that the obligation of information exchange between the doctors, in the process of reference, has to be done more firmly in an emergency situation securing human life.