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Victoria L. Batiquin, et al. vs CA, et al.

DR. VICTORIA L. BATIQUIN and ALLAN BATIQUIN, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, SPOUSES QUEDO D. ACOGIDO and FLOTILDE G. VILLEGAS, respondents.

G.R. No. 118231 | 1996-07-05

DAVIDE, JR., J.:


Throughout history, patients have consigned their fates and lives to the skill of their doctors. For a breach of this trust, men have been quick to demand retribution. Some 4,000 years ago, the Code of Hammurabi 1 then already provided: "If a physician make a deep incision upon a man with his bronze lancet and cause the man's death, or operate on the eye socket of a man with his bronze lancet and destroy the man's eyes, they shall cut off his hand." 2 Subsequently, Hippocrates 3 wrote what was to become part of the healer's oath: "I will follow that method of treatment which according to my ability and judgment, I...