Increasing public awareness of their rights resulting in malpractice cases is now
much talked about and go to court. A sense of public trust in medical care systems
in health care facilities began to fade due to relief efforts that do not all health
personnel in accordance with the wishes of patients and frequent errors that can
lead to a crime. Law enforcement conducted law enforcement officials regarding
violations committed by the physician or other health workers have difficulty in
terms of level of understanding between the breach of ethics and legal violations
which raised doubts in upholding the law. This is what will be discussed by the
author in a thesis presented two problems: first, concerning the enforcement of the
act of malpractice in the field of health care and second, the inhibiting factors in
law enforcement malpractice action. The purpose of this research is to understand
the law enforcement against malpractice actions in the field of health services and
to determine the inhibiting factors in law enforcement action such
malpractice. The method used is by normative legal research that focuses on the
norms and secondary data as primary data. Data was collected through literature
and interviews with sources. Analysis of data using qualitative analysis and the
method of deductive thinking. Based on the results of research and discussion, it
can be concluded that enforcement of laws against malpractice actions in the field
of health care have the same procedure with criminal acts in general, may be
subject to criminal prosecution under the laws and regulations. Doctors and
hospitals who commits an offense can be held accountable and can be processed
in accordance with the provisions of law as well as processed through the judicial
profession. Inhibiting factors in law enforcement most major malpractice action
regarding expert witnesses are not objective and tend to defend his
contemporaries. Advice can be given is for the patient in order to follow a variety
of legal and health counseling, is also expected law enforcement officials and
doctors to follow the extension is so that there is overwhelming agreement in
handling malpractice cases.