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Ilao-Oreta vs. Spouses Ronquillo

CONCEPCION ILAO-ORETA, Petitioner, versus SPOUSES EVA MARIE and BENEDICTO NOEL RONQUILLO, Respondents.

G.R. No. 172406 | 2007-10-11

Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila
 
SECOND DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Respondents, spouses Eva Marie Ronquillo (Eva Marie) and Noel Benedicto (Noel) Ronquillo (the Ronquillo spouses or the spouses), had not been blessed with a child despite several years of marriage. They thus consulted petitioner, Dr. Concepcion Ilao-Oreta (Dr. Ilao-Oreta), an obstetrician-gynecologist-consultant at the St. Luke's Medical Center where she was, at the time material to the case, the chief of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Section.

Upon Dr. Ilao-Oreta's advice, Eva Marie agreed to undergo a...