Title: Análise médico-legal das demandas judiciais em imaginologia
Abstract: demands, which some qualify as “judicial lottery”, that is to say an uncompromising and irresponsible attempt by some patients without any actual grounds to make money or obtain some financial advantage, resorting to the inconveniences that a lawsuit causes to the physician, such as the high judicial costs, emotional strain, loss of motivation towards the specialty or even towards the profession, as well as the feeling of helplessness and injustice. The increasing incentives and democratic appeal to the so called “moral damage industry” also add to the victimization process that affects society. The institution of the Consumer Defense Code was the landmark, allowing greater protection to the victims of “medical errors” by means of judicial mechanisms such as the reversal of the burden of proof, the costlessness of legal procedures and the granting of astronomical indemnities for moral damages. The socialization of medicine and competitiveness in the labor market have turned medicine into the profession which more absorbs the impacts of new social concepts, at the same time becoming a very high risk profession.