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		<title>How the Law Looks at the History of Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This excerpt from Professional Services v. Agana (G.R. No. 126297) is telling of how Philippine Law (as symbolized by our Supreme Court which decided the case) views the history of health care: Until the mid-nineteenth century, hospitals were generally charitable institutions, providing medical services to the lowest classes of society, without regard for a patient&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Population, Poverty, Politics and the Reproductive Health Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debate is always healthy: religious and other groups are perfectly free to espouse their own views and opinions. The line must be drawn, however, at that point where deliberate efforts are made to misinform and distort the true and well-meaning provisions of the RH Bill.]]></description>
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		<title>Islam&#8217;s Take on Contraception and Abortion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Reposted with permission from the original Facebook note by author Former COMELEC Commissioner Mehol K. Sadain) Contraception, which is the prevention of conception, has long been legally practiced among married Muslims. The rationale for allowing contraception ranges from health to economic reasons, and includes improving the quality of life of children and their family. Hence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Policy Discussion Series: DOH-LGU Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DOH &#8211; Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau has conducted a session of the HEALTH POLICY DISCUSSION SERIES Speaker:  Albert Francis E. Domingo, M.D. Consultant for the Health Sector Reform Monograph Series Health Policy Development Program (HPDP) Date:         January 8, 2010 (Friday) Time:        11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Venue:     Conference Room, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squaring Off: The Hospital Detention Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 11:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came home from guesting on ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC)&#8217;s debate program, Square Off. The proposition: Resolved, that Republic Act 9439 (Hospital Detention Law) should be repealed. A backgrounder: Last April, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) signed into law RA 9439 also known as &#8220;An act prohibiting the detention of patients in hospitals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Last Part of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Even with the professional capabilities, technical considerations, and scientific advances of medical practice in the clinical setting, a US physician cannot dissociate him/herself from the material realities of cost and production in healthcare delivery. What is important is that no matter how strong the market forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health as Wealth: Managed Care</title>
		<link>http://albertdomingo.com/health-as-wealth-managed-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 7 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Coming from that issue on medical malpractice and physicians practicing defensive medicine, it then becomes important for someone to be able to pay for all services rendered. This is where healthcare insurance comes in, and managed care systems such as the one KSC is practicing takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legalities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 6 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) While the Filipino patient’s legal rights may be similar or have equivalents to his/her US counterpart, there still are medical issues bordering with law that should be explored, and the most prominent of this (with a great effect on how US physicians practice) is medical malpractice. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Informatics: Streamlined Efficiency or Rigid Technology?</title>
		<link>http://albertdomingo.com/medical-informatics-streamlined-efficiency-or-rigid-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 5 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Perhaps the most striking of all aspects of US healthcare is the heavy use of information technology. Thus is posed this question: is medical informatics a boon or a bane in clinical practice? As part of the elective rotation, shadowing with a KSC hospitalist-internist was undertaken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Choose, not just to Consent</title>
		<link>http://albertdomingo.com/to-choose-not-just-to-consent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part 4 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, or Commerce?) Patient awareness of diseases is high in the US. The typical source of information is the internet. This poses an interesting scenario to the physician: on one hand, his/her patient is highly aware of what to report and may later on have a higher compliance rate; [...]]]></description>
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