Responsabilidad de dispensadores y prescriptores en Georgia

Explicación Simple

Esta ley dice que los médicos y farmacéuticos no tienen que buscar información de un programa específico sobre sus pacientes. Si no lo hacen, no pueden ser demandados por eso. Es como si no tuvieran que mirar en un libro antes de ayudar a alguien.

Es como cuando un chef decide no revisar un viejo recetario antes de preparar un platillo. Si el platillo no sale bien, el chef no puede ser culpable por no haber revisado el recetario.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que la doctora Ana prescribe un medicamento a su paciente Luis, pero no revisa un registro de medicamentos anteriores. Si Luis tiene una reacción adversa, Ana no puede ser demandada solo por no haber revisado ese registro, según la ley de Georgia.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a), added the last sentence in subsection (a), and added subsection (b). The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted the present provisions of subsection (a) for the former provisions, which read: "Nothing in this part shall require a dispenser or prescriber to obtain information about a patient from the program established pursuant to this part. A dispenser or prescriber shall not have a duty and shall not be held civilly liable for damages to any person in any civil or administrative action or criminally responsible for injury, death, or loss to person or property on the basis that the dispenser or prescriber did or did not seek or obtain information from the electronic data base established pursuant to Code Section 16-13-57. Nothing in this part shall create a private cause of action against a prescriber or dispenser."; and, in subsection (b), substituted "Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (4) of subsection (a) of this Code section, a person who is injured by reason of any violation of this part shall have a cause of action for the actual damages sustained and, when appropriate, punitive damages; provided, however, that a dispenser" for "A dispenser" at the beginning, substituted "from the PDMP" for "from the electronic data base established pursuant to Code Section 16-13-57" at the end of the first sentence, and added the second sentence.