Abstract

Therapeutic contract between doctors to the patients is a very specific legal relationship, considering the object of the therapeutic contract is an obligation of a doctor trying to cure the patient. This often lead to misunderstandings and disputes between them. Many factors affect the patient's recovery process. Here the information (informed consent) regarding the disease and its cure efforts are required.
The method used in this study is a mix of doctrinal approach methods to obtain secondary data and socio-legal research to obtain primary data.
The results showed that many patients do not understand the nature of the therapeutic contract between doctors to patients in the form of inspanningsverbintenis and not all failures in medical care is malpractice.

Keywords: Inspanningsverbintenis, therapeutic contract, doctor, patient