MERCH REVIEW: Shawn Mendes The Tour
While the punks were creative DIY-ers, we, postmodern millennials, are more into readymade stuff. We’re Duchampian like that.
It’s a facelift minus the scalpel, stimulating the effects of a surgical facelift without actually putting the patient under the knife. In this age of noninvasive procedures, anything involving the lancet is often perceived as barbaric.
The Akashic Record is difficult to explain to the Western scientific and materialistic mind, because it can neither be accessed or read by the ordinary human senses, nor by any scientific instrument. It exists not on the physical plane, but on the subtle etheric level.
Depression wears many faces. It isn’t always the stereotype of gloom and doom.
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.
Why on earth would a 59-year-old female finance executive think of running a full marathon? I look back now and think it was really a crazy idea when I started training a year ago.
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.
