How the Law Looks at the History of Health Care
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’s [...]
Islam’s Take on Contraception and Abortion
(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, [...]
Guazon Hall
This is how we med interns look like every 7:00 am of Monday to Saturday. This is how the residents look like when they don’t get the right answer from us. And of course, this is the bust of Dr. Potenciano C. Guazon, for whom the PGH hall where morning endorsements are held is named.
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