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A reader who requests anonymity writes: "Your column on medical malpractice (The Bitter Pill of Medical Malpractice, Nov. 8, 2002) is quite sensible. Unfortunately, the debate has been reduced to a populist sound byte: it would add to health costs. 


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Rodriguez said the penalty provisions will likely offer probation as an alternative to imprisonment. 


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The bill seeks "to ensure the safety of and well-being of patients by providing them with professional medical care."


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The physicians also said any malpractice law would accelerate health care cost and undermine patient-doctor relationship.


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Rodriguez said the penalty provisions will likely offer probation as an alternative to imprisonment. 


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The physicians also said any malpractice law would accelerate health care cost and undermine patient-doctor relationship.


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Rama meets with parents of dead baby

By Jean Marvette A. Demecilio/JMO | September 23, 2014 - 12:00am

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama yesterday met with the parents of the baby who died allegedly because of “malpractice” committed by the medical staff of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.

Cebu News

Malayan offers medical insurance

October 8, 2013 - 12:00am

Medical professionals can be protected in the event of being sued for committing wrongful or negligent medical services by purchasing medical malpractice liability insurance.

Banking

The dilemma that our medical practitioners face today

By AS A MATTER OF FACT | By Sara Soliven De Guzman | November 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Los Angeles, California – US News and World Report writer Mary Brophy Marcus wrote an article a few years back, entitled Healthcare’s Perfect Storm.

Opinion

Signs and sounds of desperation, hope and fun

By Rey Gamboa | November 29, 2002 - 12:00am

Various reactions have been received when the medical malpractice issue was featured in this column and in this week’s news program "Isyung Kalakalan at iba pa" on IBC-13. A reader who requests...

Business

The bitter pill of medical malpractice

By Rey Gamboa | November 8, 2002 - 12:00am

Medical malpractice undoubtedly is a bitter pill for people who have had the misfortune to experience it. By the reckoning of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC), there are some 600 doctors involved...

Business

Probation eyed for malpracticing doctors

By Ding Cervantes | September 23, 2002 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Rep. Oscar Rodriguez is confident Congress will pass his proposed medical malpractice bill, but expects the penalty provisions to be watered down. Rodriguez said the penalty provisions...

Nation

Malpractice suits may end up in few doctors

By FROM THE STANDS | By Domini M. Torrevillas | September 14, 2002 - 12:00am

The Philippine Medical Association is undergoing "emotional pains" over the possibility that House Bill No. 4955 (The Malpractice Bill) is approved. The doctors may be in need of treatment themselves. The...

Opinion

Doctors claim malpractice law bad for health

By Perseus Echeminada | August 28, 2002 - 12:00am

Passage of the proposed medical malpractice bill would only encourage quack medicine in the country, the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) warned yesterday. The physicians also said any malpractice law would...

Headlines