جريمة تزوير التقارير والشهادات الطبية، وفقا للنظام السعودي (دراسة تحليلية تطبيقية).

Saudi Law criminalizes forging of medical reports and certificates, and places it under crimes with light punishment in the penal law for forgery. Because of the wide spread commission of this crime among a category that should not be underrated, and the fact that a lot of people are ignorant of the legal consequence of being indicted for such an offence, it has become imperative to do a detailed research on this crime and to know the legal pillars of it and to evaluate the extent of adequacy of it light punishment in preventing its spread. The research aims at studying this crime according to Saudi Law and knowing the legal principles regulating its various aspects such as its meaning, pillars, legal consequence, and penalties. The researcher used the descriptive approach in reviewing the Saudi law, In addition to the analytical approach to the law articles related to the subject . The major research findings include: that the legal clauses criminalizing forging of medical reports and certificates did not differentiate between medical report and medical certificate. That the law equates the penalty of this crime for all professionals such as doctors, nurses, administrators in medical agencies and ordinary people. The research recommends the need for severe penalty in situation where the crime occurred with the knowledge of a general employee or in situation where the general employees commits this crime together with bribery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]