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SANTIAGO-Sigua, Helen M.

B.S. Psychology, cum laude, UP Diliman 1981
M.D., UP Manila 1985
Residency Training in Family Medicine, UP-PGH, 1989
(Fellow, 2009)
Diploma in Occupational Health, UP, 1993
Diploma in Family Counseling, Ateneo Loyola School of
Theology, 1999
Masters in Hospital Administration, UP, 2009 Read the rest of this entry »

Title Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Photos
List of Tables
Approval
Abstract
Acknowledgment
Letter Transmittal
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Bibliography

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Illlness Typology (MS Word)

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(This was the piece I should have posted in the SBCM Faculty e- group cc the Fr. Rector, one day after I left only to find out I was already unsubscribed.)

I would rather have gone without having to do this piece but people bombard me with questions why, and lest speculations go wayward, please allow me to enlighten everyone as to where I was coming from. Then I hope silence would ensue, and we all have peace.

Yesterday I was called to the Dean’s Office and was told I would no longer be recommended to the position of Prefect of Students because I displeased the Fr. Rector for having Kenny Taborada deliver a valedictory speech, clearly breaking a protocol. According to the Dean I have this tendency to do things overboard.

Indeed perhaps I have a different way of perceiving my role as Prefect of Students compared to the rest . I took that risk on myself and on my position, the risk of being branded a rebel because I still believe that graduations, although it is an official event , has to be RECONCILED with its essence as being an occasion for the students and their families. Maybe my being a parent and mom to the students took the better of me. When I saw the enthusiasm of Kenny, our cum laude valedictorian, to seize his moment that might not come again ; when I heard his story that could be a timeless inspiration to many to rise above financial obstacles in aspiring for noble dreams; when I remembered hearing Ken speak the way a mentor would feel so proud of; when I knew that it was a Bedan, Dr Jimmy Galvez-Tan, who was his benefactor for the scholarship; when during our grad meetings, I felt the sentiment of the batch was for him to do so, I really thought that Graduation 2009 would not be complete without it. Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Helen Sigua, in relation with her thesis on promotion of patient safety in health care settings (as requirement for her Masters in Hospital Administration), was granted full scholarship for attending the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) 20^th Annual National Forum on in Nashville, Tennessee, USA last Dec 7 to 11, 2008. IHI is an international institution in the forefront of setting global trends in upgrading health care. Representing San Beda College of Medicine and UP Open University, she participated in various learning laboratories and workshops, which were attended by about 3,000 health care professionals from all over the world. She was the lone Filipino representative coming from outside the US .

Dr. Sigua specifically attended sessions related to designing and evaluating changes in health care processes, as one of the 3 aspects of assessing quality of health care. This is very helpful in further developing her ongoing thesis , which aims to establish the quality of the processes related to sepsis control ( fatal hospital-acquired infections)– a truly pressing problem in many hospitals of the country. Dr. Arandia, the current director of one of SBCM’s affiliate hospitals, QMMC, welcomes the contributions Dr Sigua can share and echo to them from these learnings , which can indeed help conceptualize concrete system and policy changes.

“Your   mom was given an anti-coagulant   that led to  her stroke bleed…”

“Your father received a wrong dose of insulin that  caused his almost fatal hypoglycemia…”

Such realities  occur almost every  second, every minute, worldwide. Truth is, even families of doctors  have  no immunity. As we read volumes and volumes of literature on adverse events, we realize  it is indeed the emerging twenty-first  century epidemic.

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AMA Leader Commentary. By Timothy T. Flaherty, MD. May 6, 2002.

A message to all physicians from Timothy T. Flaherty, MD, chair of the AMA Board of Trustees.

With so much attention being paid today to professional liability reform, any one of us might hesitate to admit that we have ever committed a medical error. But the truth is, accidents do happen, and the best way to handle them is to acknowledge them when they do occur, and use the opportunity to figure out how not to let them happen again.

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Albert W Wu, MD, MPH, Thomas A. Cavanaugh, PhD, Stephen J. McPhee, MD, Bernard Lo, MD, Guy P. Micco, MD

While moonlighting in an emergency room, a resident physician evaluated a 35-year-old woman who was 6 months pregnant and complaining of a headache. The physician diagnosed a ‘mixed tension/sinus headache’ The patient returned to the ER 3 days later with an intracerebral bleed, presumably related to ecclampsia, and died.
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