More and more companies control the lives of their employees. When they register their employees to an HMO or to a retainer physician, this practically ties the employees to a particular doctor not of the employees choice. This disrupts the medical history of the employee to that particular doctor and more often than not, dissatisfaction creeps in between the patient and the new doctor. The new doctor examines the employee routinely ( most often haphazardly) because he receives a fixed amount for every patient unlike the enployee's doctor of choice who had created a rapur in the years that they had seen each other. And this is the main reason why patients sue their doctor in the event of un-acceptable result of medical care. If we doctors want to decrease the incidence of malpractice suits, we should insist to the patient to develop a personal touch with his doctor before he goes into a more complicated medical care procedure.
Medical Malpractice is what keeps health care cost so high in the U.S. Is medical malpractice an issue in the Philippines?
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