Overview
- The National Medical Council logged 1,992 incidents in 2024, a 26% rise from 2023 and nearly double compared with 2021.
- Most incidents occurred in city practices, with general practitioners the most targeted and women comprising 55% of reported victims.
- Patients were most often the perpetrators, with disputes over care (about 32%), requests to falsify documents (about 26%) and refusals of prescriptions (about 17%) cited as triggers.
- Property offenses rose to 30% of reports, with prescriptions and professional items increasingly stolen to obtain controlled medicines.
- Roughly 35% of affected physicians filed complaints as the medical council signs protocols with prosecutors, ARS and police and the 2025 Pradal law raises penalties, though key implementing decrees remain pending.