I received quite a number of feedback to last week’s column on what I believe is an effective “formula” to achieve our goals. I can testify that it has worked for me—in at least eight out of 10 goals.
I was recently invited to deliver an inspirational message to a graduating batch. I shared with them a simple formula I’ve been using for the longest time. I believe it has been helping me achieve my goals.
When I got back to the clinic after a long absence a few weeks ago, a patient came for follow-up and proudly told me, “Doctor, I had fever and flu-like symptoms while you were abroad. I just took several capsules of an antibiotic and the fever was gone after a few days.”
Last week, I and 20 other Filipino doctors—heart specialists, endocrinologists and diabetes experts, and kidney specialists—had the chance to exchange ideas with some Greek cardiometabolic specialists headed by professor Athanasios Manolis, director of the Cardiology Institute of the Asklepeion Medical Center in Athens, Greece.
Up to around 10 years ago, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was readily dismissed as a “wastebasket diagnosis,” meaning, it’s the diagnosis a doctor gives when he can’t identify any cause of the patient’s extreme fatigue, or feeling “low bat,” even with just minimal physical or mental exertion.
First, we have to give credit where credit is due. President Duterte should be commended for not only immediately signing the Philippine Mental Health Law, or Republic Act 11036, but openly supporting it.
We’re almost addicted to cold drinks, even just water, during meals—what better way to end a good meal than flush everything down with a full glass of cold water.
Last week, I had the privilege to chair one of the plenary sessions at the annual convention of the European Society of Hypertension in Barcelona, Spain.
Health experts have been wondering about the increased prevalence of kidney stones (nephrolithiasis) in the general population in the last two to three decades.
Recently we had a female patient in her early 60s who suffered a heart attack and fortunately survived it.
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