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Do we need a law that protect healthcare providers if they disclose or confess medical errors?
Central to correcting medical errors is accepting one first, if it did happen. Improvement in healthcare delivery will only happen if we learn from our mistakes and make concrete, active steps to rectify it…. Read more
Blind Eye: Unabated rising number of motorcycle accidents
Last Monday, on my way to Davao City, some hundred and forty kilometers away from my place, we passed by four vehicular accident sites involving motorcycles. In one site, we… Read more
A Perspective on Non-Compliant Patients and the Contractual Doctor-Patient Relationship
I have long been an advocate of a no refusal, admit all patients policy for physicians . Any physician is bound by his Hippocratic oath and the law to treat… Read more
Where’s health and education now Mr. President?
I had mixed feelings after reading the text of your recent State of the Nation Address (SONA) Mr. President. On one part, I got excited when you detailed some of… Read more
Top Five Health Care Priorities Needing Immediate Positive Action
Health care issues that have been there before he ascended into office. Pres. Benigno Aquino III, my president, if health is one of your top two (other is education) thrust… Read more
When patients leave without paying their hospital bills…
All the hospital and the health care practitioner can do is to consider him/her (the patient’s bills) “lost income” and deduct it from your gross income for that year. That’s… Read more
Why I am campaigning for Dr. Martin Bautista as Senator this May 2010 elections
I believed in him before and I still believe in him now. If there’s anyone “healthy” enough to be called a senator, that would be Dr. Martin Bautista, our Dr…. Read more
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