I have been teaching for 11 years now in the College of Medicine. Within those long years, it did not enter my mind that I will take part in uncovering the bad practice of a colleague. It was a fine January afternoon and we were having our experiment in the lab. One of my female [...]

I remember when me and my husband were just starting life together. I was responsible for everything in the house from cleaning the house and the backyard, doing the laundry, cleaning fishes freshly bought from the market, cooking, and all the little things. Life was so simple then and I enjoyed every moment of it. [...]

It’s been months since I last posted on this blog. Well, I am not dead. I am not sick. And I have not gotten tired of this thing which I love doing – writing!. I am so much around. It’s just that I was so busy reviewing for the PAFP Diplomate exams – both written [...]

Whenever I prescribe medicines to patients, I always tell them to buy from leading drug stores in order to avoid fake medicines. Sometimes I even specify Mercury drug as it oftentimes is more complete and medicines are always new. But lately I get irritated when I send some patients to them because do not only [...]

Medical missions are a common practice here in the Philippines. Oftentimes, free circumcision, especially during summer, comes along with it. And as anything with the word “FREE” in it,these missions surely receive positive consideration from people. Juan and Juana will line up at the onset of dawn just to have a tablet or two of [...]

July has been the busiest month for me every year. But this year’s has been so far the busiest. It is evidenced by the long pause in blogging I had for this month. For one, my mother-in-law died on July 4th (bless her soul). That took out a lot of our time, interrupting our busy [...]

When I started teaching in the College of Medicine (that was ten years ago), there were around 80 students (foreign and local) in the first year. The number started to dwindle as years went by, more so when the Nursing course boomed. For so many years, we were having less than 20 students in the [...]

It is not the first time that a medical representative forged a doctor’s signature. It has happened many times in the past. The only thing that’s new is that it’s the first time it has happened to me. A medical representative visits a doctor regularly to promote the drug manufactured by his company. The regular [...]

Even at this age of computers, still many doctors are not into it. If you go around private out-patient medical clinics especially in the provinces, many clinicians still don’t have the initiative to make use of a computer in their daily dealings with their patients. Although you can find a computer in one or two [...]