From time to time, my medical colleagues and I would mull the future of universal health care (UHC) which President Duterte recently signed into law. At the turn of the century, many were talking about it already, but we thought it could not be achieved in our lifetime.
Finally curbing pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in the Philippines may require strong political will, and its increasing incidence, despite government efforts, requires a higher level of commitment.
On several occasions, we’ve written about wives of our patients who have been dutifully accompanying their husbands to our clinic for checkups, without realizing that they (the wives) are the ones with more serious cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
One of the principal precepts in the practice of medicine is “Primum non nocere” (First, do no harm). Its origin is uncertain, but it may have come from the Hippocratic Oath, which enjoins all medical practitioners to “abstain from doing harm” to their patients.
It’s colorectal cancer (CRC) awareness month again. I have always supported this campaign, as two of my brothers died from CRC, and a third one from liver cancer. Somehow, I still can’t shake off the thought that they might still be around today had they been screened much earlier.
Last week, various specialists in the treatment of hypertension and its complications gathered for the 24th joint annual convention of the Philippine Hypertension Society (PSH) and the Philippine Lipid and Atherosclerosis Society (PLAS).
Last week, in the joint annual convention of the Philippine Society of Hypertension and Philippine Lipid Society, I attended an interesting panel discussion on childhood factors that could lead to heart problems in adulthood.
Last year, we had a middle-age female diabetic patient confined after she tried one of the so-called fad diets to lose weight—without the supervision of physician.
Everyone in the medical community is wondering about the fate of the universal healthcare (UHC) law which promises to give every Juan dela Cruz adequate access to healthcare.
It’s difficult to explain why some people do the craziest things when provoked. We’ve heard of some who were instantly transformed from mild-mannered individuals into irrational monsters after a small argument or a traffic altercation.
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