On Oct. 26, I was awakened at dawn by piercing stomach pain. Rushing to Asian Hospital and Medical Center, I was diagnosed with appendicitis. Fortunately, the appendix had not yet burst.
That evening I was prepped for an appendectomy. By 7 p.m. I was wheeled into surgery. By 10 p.m. I was awake. Before 11 p.m. I was in a private room, with all medications administered intravenously.
My mother had an appendectomy when I was in grade school. She has a long scar to show for it, and I remember it took her so much longer than four days to recover enough to return to work. And it’s distressing to learn that one of our top orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Benigno “Iggy” Agbayani Jr., died of a heart attack last month.
His patient, a lawyer who is reportedly a professor of criminal law, sued Agbayani for using an arthroscope – an instrument for non-invasive examination of a diseased joint – that allegedly was not sufficiently sterilized, during surgery on the patient’s left knee in January 2006, causing an infection in the knee that incapacitated him for 30 days.
Doctors’ groups, apart from mourning the loss of a colleague, have released statements of concern about the ruling, and are seeking a review of the case, which they fear could open the floodgates to legal harassment and frivolous lawsuits. Limpin said Congress is deliberating on a proposed Physicians’ Act, which will define the rights and responsibilities of doctor and patient alike.
If you’ve been to Dumaguete even just once, you will understand why the gentle people – as the people of this place are called – are against any reclamation plan in this city on Negros Island.
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