談醫療行為中性騷擾違法之處罰

The Punishment to the Offense of Sexual Harassment in Medical Treatment

性騷擾防治法於95年2月5日起施行，該法之立法目的，在「為防治性騷擾及保護被害人之權益」。但每日新聞媒體報導，都會有性騷擾違法行為發生。雖然各有關機關極力宣導，但效果似乎仍然不彰，為使醫師知悉該法內容，特別以案例式說明其有關規定，諸如：何謂性騷擾？被行為人應如何主張，用以保障自己之權益？行為人應經過何認定程序，做如何之處罰？如對性騷擾調查後之處分，不成立或不服者，應循何程序進行救濟？行為人與被行為人可否經由調解或和解方法，因而解決問題？被行為人可否請求民事損害賠償，其法律依據為何？醫師替婦女看診時，應如何預防騷擾婦女之方法？又醫院應如何杜絕醫療行為中，所發生性騷擾之違法行為？本文均有詳細之介紹，期以醫師或民眾認識性騷擾防治法之規定，用以維護自己之權益。

On the 5th of February, 2006, the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act was carried out, aiming to prevent the sexual harassment and protect the equity of the victims. However, the offense of sexual harassments are still happened often, in order to make the doctors become aware of the content of such an act, the relative provision will be introduced by special case. For example, what does sexual harassment mean? How the victims do claims to protect their own equity? How to identity sexual harassment and to punish such an offense? After investigation, if it was found that the sexual harassment was not true; or the punishment was unacceptable, how to relieve? Is it possible to resolve the problem via the reconciliation or mediation between the victim and offender? Can the victim petition to the damages? And what's the legal basis for such a damages? How the doctors and hospital do prevent the offense of sexual harassment in the medical treatment? Those will be introduced in this essay in order to help the doctors and people to understand the rules of the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act and protect their own equity.