About Health Care Law

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Euthanasia means good death in Ancient Greek. It is a way of ending another one’s life painlessly. The debate about whether it is moral or not still goes on at this time. There are countries which have already legalized euthanasia. Nations like Luxembourg, Switzerland, [...]

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One major area covered by the Health care law is medical malpractice, which is professional misconduct or lack of skill in providing medical treatment or services. The victims of medical malpractice seek compensation for their physical or emotional injuries, or both, through a negligence action.A defendant physician may be found liable for medical [...]

Do you remember the game you played when you were kids? The game wherein you had to save only 5 – 10 people (placed inside the boat) out of, say, 20 (depending on the rules of the game), and lay off the others who are “worthless”, all of which have special cases?
Doctors in Chicago are [...]

Are you a drug store regular? If you are, then probably you’ll be more than happy to know that you don’t need to line up in your local store anymore just to buy your daily doses—you can do it online. Also, if you take legend drugs that require rigid prescriptions, then perhaps you’ll be more [...]

An earlier post was made here a month ago regarding the beta testing of Google’s Health and surely, as predicted, a test run would be available after a month or so.

Now, Google has chosen its partner in making the test run possible: the Cleveland Clinic. The said hospital, ranks as one of the best in [...]

A month ago, a brief introduction about HIPAA was made (click here to read it). After the 9/11 attacks in WTC and Pentagon, there was a sudden increase of people who want to be under the HIPAA’s roof, perhaps due to the fear the attacks imposed upon the people.
But in the past years (not more [...]

HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, has been ratified by the United States Congress 12 years ago to protect and administer the health insurance of all the residents of the United States. The first target of the said act is to protect the health insurance of those who lose and/or change their [...]

The code of ethic in the Philippines is formulated by the Philippine Medical Association promulgated or known as Republic Act 4224. This Code of Ethics includes the duties, responsibilities, obligations of Filipino Physicians to the recipient of their care.
The Code of Ethics of Physicians is subdivided into two Articles. Article I, in which in states [...]

If there is Patient’s bill of rights, nurses are no exception to that. Nurses have also rights in practicing his or her profession to avoid misconduct or abuse from any patient. Usually, some patients violate the rights of a nurse because they are not aware of those. However, ignorance to the facts is not an [...]

Patients also known as clients have basic rights in accessing on health care services. However, many people are not aware of it because of some reasons, and one is the literacy level that they have. Here are some of the basic rights of a patient:
1. Right to considerate and respectful care
2. Right to know
3. Right [...]