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The dilemma that our medical practitioners face today
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The news that the House has given the green signal for stiffer penalty for medical malpractice was met with varied reactions from medical practitioners, patients and the general public. House Bill 6538, now Senate Bill 3137 and pending for second reading provides that any physician who practices in a field of medical specialization which is not within the scope of his or her specialization may face life imprisonment under the provisions of the proposed Physicians Act of 2012. A fine ranging from P500,000 to P2 million and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment will be imposed if the death of a patient occurs as a result of the practice of a field of medical specialty outside the field of the doctor involved.
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Link to the Senate Bill.
IMHO, they should think long and hard before passing this law.
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Hindi lang yun. Check out the punishment!
Parang kasing level lang ng Drug Trafficking and whatnot.
ITS A FREAKING HEINOUS CRIME!
walang masama sa batas na yan bukod pa dun di mo kailangan ng budget para magpasa ng batas na me karampatan parusa .
pagkatapos magaral ng ilang taon, magbayad ng P100,000/sem, magpakapuyat as intern,
magsisilbi ka as doktor na mababang sweldo sa isang pampblikong ospital,
ikaw pa makukulong. :rotflmao:
what a joke!
What if there's no specialist around, or the nearest specialist is about 8 to 12 hours from the patient's location?
There are many what ifs here.
I hope that they study this bill more.
field of spec.- surgery,ob-gyn, pediatrics and internal medicine, bawat isa may sub specialty like neuro surgery, cardiology, ophthalmology, ent-hns, orthopedics etc. then there is general practice or gp, usually mga gp pang ubo-sipon-lbm lang yan, mga common ailments. from what the bill says it will be illegal for a doctor to practice in a field of spec that is not his field of spec. ex. if you are a trained pediatrician hindi ka pwedeng pumapel na ob-gyne kung hindi ka nagtraining sa ob-gyne. in a non emergency setting, hindi ka pwedeng mag paanak kung hindi ka ob-gyne.
pag kritikal or agaw buhay na ang pasyente, wala ng kukuhang doktor dahil baka malasin at matuluyan, makulong pa sya. :glee:
we are not the US.
we have no universal healthcare. sa america, pwedeng umorder ang doktor ng xray, mri, ct scan, when they're in doubt of condition, just like ordering through a drivethru,
sa pilipinas wala tayong universal health care na pwedeng mag shoulder sa medical na gastusin ng mga pasyente,
so ano? papasa na rin ang universal healthcare, para sa million million na pinoy na di kayang mag MRI,
good luck.
grabe tong mga mambabatas natin, san ba napunta mga utak ng mga ito.
we deserve who we vote.
i guess this is for non emergency setting only, pero kailangan talaga ng dedicated medical transport system in cases where great distance separate the patient and health care provider ex. med-evac choppers, emt ambulances, hospital-ships. maraming doctor ang may gusto ng ganito,other countries have this kind of set up already, kaso with caliber of politicians we have this is just another long shot
But there are many what ifs that remain to be answered.
A safety net for medical practitioners who must not be punished if they performed their duty well.
Not all deaths are caused by malpractices. Hence, it doesn't follow that an Internist caused the death of someone who is suffering from cancer. We need to know the whole story.
If so, the law should be very clear on this one. This gray area will put a lot of doctors in trouble.
but it's still vague, I mean the law, dahil specialists are also doctors.
what if may manganak sa eroplano, so an eent wont be able to help, dahil di sya ob-gyne.
kasi the instances that this law should be applicable, is nearly nil to happen,
why? first hospitals wont permit it.
may hospital bang papayag na ang EENT ang mag oopera sa puso, pagagamit ba nila yung operating room at mga surgical equipments sa EENT?
or yung opthalmologist, mag sa suction ng nasal drainage ng pasyente.
in what way magiging applicable ang law nato?
marami din kasing doc na naturuan lang gumawa ng isang procedure ng kapwa doctor e feeling nila qualified na sila gumawa ng ganoon. ex. general surgeons doing breast augmentation, nose lift etc. only board certified cosmetic surgeons are allowed to do this, coz aside from general surgery training, cosmetic surgeons undergo additional training and certification in cosmetic surgery
This will really look good sa mga MASA who doesn't think and let the media think for them. :rotflmao:
Anyways, maganda na din ito. Yung mga walang kamaganak or asawa or kapatid or whatever na doctor will surely suffer when they start yelling: IS THERE A DOCTOR HERE!
I :love: this law!
I worked in a small town, rural hospital in the US, and technically, we are not licensed to deliver babies because we don't have that specialty. Meaning, we don't do it on a daily basis (very rare actually). But because of a certain law, we are required to do all within our means to attend to the delivery if one presents in our emergency room. But other measures should also take place, like making sure emergency transport is called once we do our part so the patient can be transferred to the more appropriate facility. In some extreme emergency cases, patient is out of our ER within 15 minutes, via plane or helicopter, to the nearest trauma center. That's what I would like to see first in the Philippines, the efficiency of the practice.
But the Philippines is not the US. We don't have all the resources.
The real problem of this law is how it will define a certain doctor's limitations. If a doctor is an Ob-Gyn, what are his limitations? What are the things that he cannot do?
Another problem is what is License to practice medicine? What does practice of medicine mean -its limitation and scope according to one's knowledge and experience? For example how many vaginal delivery should a general physician have done to have "license to do vaginal delivery" if there is such a thing. Again this law has so many gray areas and will put both the doctor and patient in uncomfortable situation.
Also, Emergency Medicine is a specialty. If you are not board certified by Philippine College of Emergency Medicine, and you attended an emergency case and the patient dies, will you get jailed beause you are not board certified by PCEM and that your knowledge and experience with Emergency Medicine might be lacking hence the death of the patient?
http://libertadfilipinas.wordpress.com/2003/06/25/bring-back-the-guild-system/
If we go the way of the US AMA then mayhap we will face the same problems discussed sa link ko which echoes the Opinion of Soliven.
Cause we are trusting them with our lives. With that kind of job, mistake is a big NO. The reason why we are paying them more. Life for life, If you ruin the life of other then you deserve the same faith.
siyempre, abroad na ang puntirya ng mga doctors natin niyan. practical at logical lang.