我国医疗侵权因果关系举证责任分配研究

摘要

The enaction of The Law of Liability for Infringement was expected to effectively solve a series problems such as the "duality" in law application, hypercorrection of shifting burden of evidence, the "duality" of compensation standard, etc.. However, in judicial practice, people's understanding of Article 54, Article 58 in The Law of Liability for Infringement still exists differences, people still lack a clear understanding of the burden of proof allocation of the causality between the conduct and the damage. In this paper, the author drew lessons from related theories and judicial practice outside medical tort, explored the distribution of evidential burden of the es-sential elements of causality in medical tort in China, with the purpose of promoting the fair dealing with related cases.%《侵权责任法》的颁布实施试图能有效地解决医疗侵权中法律适用的“二元化”、举证责任倒置的“矫枉过正”、赔偿标准的“二元化”等一系列问题。但在司法实践中，人们对《侵权责任法》第五十四条、第五十八条规定的理解仍然存在分歧，特别是对医疗行为与损害后果之间是否存在因果关系在举证责任分配上缺乏清晰的认识。本文借鉴域外相关的医疗侵权理论及司法实践，探讨我国医疗侵权中“因果关系”要件的举证责任分配，以推动相关案件的公正处理。