[Issues of legal responsibility of the pathologist]

Medical care refers to a risky type of activity, since as a result of its provision, harm to the patient's health may be caused and prerequisites for the onset of legal (civil, disciplinary, administrative and criminal) liability may arise. The legal liability of a pathologist in the event of an incorrect diagnosis by the attending physician on the basis of an incorrect conclusion of the pathologist may occur due to violations due to low qualifications, frivolity, negligence, failure to comply with the rules, procedures for providing medical care, job descriptions, official duties. If the incorrect conclusion of the pathologist was of an objective nature (for example, in the case of an incorrect interpretation of a diagnostically difficult case), it should go beyond the scope of punishable shortcomings in the activities of the pathologist. The financial responsibility of a pathologist may occur when its burden is placed on a medical organization for harm caused to the life or health of a patient, due to the establishment, among other things, of the legality of the actions (inaction) of a medical worker with whom the medical organization is in an employment relationship. A medical organization, in case of satisfaction of the patient's claims by the court, as a rule, in a regression procedure, may involve the relevant medical worker who caused the harm in the issue of compensation, compensate for their financial and reputational losses. The most important thing in such cases is to resolve the issue of establishing the grounds for bringing a medical worker to responsibility.