Failure to provide assistance to the patient in criminal law

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of non-assistance to the patient in criminal law. Different aspects of this term are considered, comparative analysis of legal etymology of "non-provision of assistance" in different authors is carried out. Attention is paid to the analysis of the offence of article 124 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The study revealed a shortage of sources to conceptually determine the correct interpretation of the rule and the distinction.