Practice question
A party cites Imbong’s disposition concerning refusal to refer a patient not in an emergency or life-threatening case and claims it conclusively resolves every distinct emergency situation in favor of refusal. No emergency-law analysis is supplied. Which response is sound?
- Every qualification in a judgment can be ignored.
- The nonemergency qualification and applicable emergency-law framework must be respected; that limited disposition is not an automatic answer to different facts.
- All emergencies are legally identical to routine future consultations.
- The case abolished every emergency statute.
- A citation allows the party to erase the judgment’s wording.
Legal references
- Imbong v. Ochoa, G.R. No. 204819 et al., April 8, 2014, main decision, free exercise and nonemergency referral: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/apr2014/gr_204819_2014.html
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