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Professional Services vs. Agana

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, INC., Petitioner, Versus NATIVIDAD and ENRIQUE AGANA, Respondents.

G.R. No. 126297 | 2007-01-31

Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila
 
FIRST DIVISION
 
 
D E C I S I O N
 
SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.:
 
Hospitals, having undertaken one of mankind’s most important and delicate endeavors, must assume the grave responsibility of pursuing it with appropriate care. The care and service dispensed through this high trust, however technical, complex and esoteric its character may be, must meet standards of responsibility commensurate with the undertaking to preserve and protect the health, and indeed, the very lives of those placed in the hospital’s keeping.1
 
Assailed in these three consolidated...