Legal Literacy - In an agreement, there is a legal relationship between one party and another to agree to carry out something or not to carry out something. Without the word "agreement", the agreement cannot be said to be valid. One of the agreements known in the health sector is a therapeutic agreement which generally has distinctive characteristics that are different from agreements in general.

Understanding Therapeutic Agreements

In the Civil Code (KUHper), a therapeutic agreement is categorized as an agreement to provide services as regulated in article 1601 KUHper. A therapeutic agreement is an agreement made between a doctor and a patient, with the aim of giving the doctor the authority to make health efforts to the patient based on the expertise of the doctor concerned.

It can be said in a therapeutic agreement that the patient entrusts himself who is sick and needs healing efforts to a doctor who has experience and knowledge about the patient's illness. Because of this relationship of trust, the parties, both doctors and patients, must be honest and detailed in providing information, unless information from the doctor will only have a bad effect on the patient's health. Health service efforts in a therapeutic agreement can be carried out through preventive (prevention), promotive (improvement), curative (healing) and also rehabilitative efforts.