Medico-legal issues range
from the sophisticated medico-ethical issues, clinical
negligence, to relatively simple registration / licensing
of intellectual property rights. As a result of innovative
biotech techniques & product advances, the public
general is more health conscious and prepared to try new
medical / health care products and services. The resultant
booming market has triggered many new legal issues. For
instances :-
a medical practitioner recommends a particular treatment
/ drug knowing that the recommendation will form part
of a related advertisements
a medial practitioner in his capacity as employee
performs medical treatment in a beauty salon which
is operated without registration as a clinic
personal web-site of medical practitioner which
hyperlinks to other commercial sites
Due observations are thus
necessarily with regard to the Hong Kong regulatory environment
such as :-
The Medical Council of Hong Kong Professional Code
and Conduct
The Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong, Code
of Practice for Registered / Listed
Chinese Medicine Practitioners, Good Manufacturing
Practice
General Dental Council, Code of Professional
Discipline for the Guidance of Dental Practitioners
Health Department, HKSAR government, Regulation
of Medical Devices
The complexity of the
above problems lies in its multi-disciplinary nature.
The problem may involve issues from pharmacy, bio-science,
professional code of conduct, regulatory guidelines
and other highly specific knowledge domains. Together
with our associates, we are proficient in providing
services to individual medical practitioners, dentists,
health care / medical products /services providers as
well as the related professional bodies.
Some of our recent works in this area
include :
assisting a defendant medical doctor in a disciplinary
inquiry hearing of the Medical Council of Hong Kong
advising a health care manufacturer / importer
in its product compliance registration
advising a medical practitioner in his provision
of services to commercial beauty salon
advising a group of medical practitioners in their
promotion of services to the public
acting for a medical appliance supplier on passing
off and trademark infringement actions both in Hong
Kong and China
