‘I was scared to tell my parents I work at COVID unit’
Planning for things they want to do when the pandemic ends is a regular topic among active-duty hospital health-care workers. “It’s what keeps us going,” says Ashley Mae Abesamis, 22,
Planning for things they want to do when the pandemic ends is a regular topic among active-duty hospital health-care workers. “It’s what keeps us going,” says Ashley Mae Abesamis, 22,
Dr. Donnah de Leon likes to assume that for new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients who had been on a respirator for some time, dying would be painless and uneventful. “Patients
At age 30, Steven Mari Cadiz, a nurse at The Medical City in Pasig, has seen untold horrors in the emergency room. The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic made sure
Dr. Jill P. Buensuceso is in constant fear of being infected, ever since new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients started coming to the hospital where she works. Any patient is a
I am an internist-pulmonologist in Manila. My days now barely resemble any routine I have established for the past seven years in practice. Each day changes as we adapt to
Every day, Filipino health-care workers exert tremendous physical effort in the medical trenches to care for new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients. The public, meanwhile, has nobly contributed to providing for
The exhaustion medical workers feel working during this pandemic can wear them down. But knowing they are able to help alleviate the pain and discomfort of their patients fortifies them.
When I’m on call, a typical day involves receiving endorsements or the list of patients to see, who to watch out for…I start doing the rounds, reviewing labs and X-rays.
Back in January, I was doing the rounds at the ICU with an extraordinary patient, a doctor herself, a grand dame of Philippine pulmonary medicine. It was more of her
‘Whatever I do, I always think about my three children’ Dr. Luanne Jill ‘Twinkle’ Santos, perinatal anesthesiologist in private practice I’m an active consultant in hospitals in Cavite and Antipolo.
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