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I think that it is important that our medical frontliners and other healthcare professionals appreciate the current status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and in the NCR, which contributes more than 50% of the total number of cases in the entire country. At this time, in the middle
Dr. Carlos M. Nalda, in 1887 retired as Director of the Military Hospital of Manila and returned to the Spanish Peninsula. Five years later on August 3, 1893, he died and like all other men of great talent, he died without possessing anything. While Fr. Marcos Laynez Hernando left the
This is a time when we have been confined in our own shell, be it our home, our cell, our self. We have tried to protect ourselves from an invisible agent by keeping away from our fellow human beings. Six long months already. Gatherings at stadiums, churches, parks, etc., have
Accepting no payment for their services led to them being named anargyroi (from the Greek Ανάργυροι, ‘the silverless’ or ‘unmercenaries’); it has been said that, by this, they attracted many to the Christian faith. Nothing is known of their lives except that they suffered martyrdom in Syria during the persecution
“We are a COVID free facility which is kind of hard to attain nowadays,” Dr. Stella mentioned. There are critical patients in the facility and they are COVID free. The establishment has implemented a lockdown in the facility since March 10, 2020, and they have placed protocols early on to
Dr. Ginard was later assisted by Dr. Mariano Marti in the conduct of classes in Descriptive Anatomy, General Physiology, and Exercises on Osteology and Dissection. He died in 1885 while teaching in his Anatomy class. After helping Dr. Ginard with the Exercises in Osteology and Dissection, Dr. Marti felt the
As we speak, there are still challenges that we confront every day—the unrelenting droves of COVID-19 patients in our Emergency Room despite the Full Capacity announcement, the infection among our healthcare workers and trainees which fortunately are mostly asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, community-acquired and colleague-transmitted, the increased demand for COVID-19
The revolutionary medical curriculum as vigorously suggested by Abraham Flexner in the United States was likewise adopted in the Philippines in 1916. This consisted of two years in the basic sciences and two years in the clinical disciplines. However, there were still didactic sessions in the fifth year. More than
March 2020 has been a particularly difficult month to wake up to. As I prepare for a shift at the Emergency Department (ED), this question always comes to mind “Is this the day I finally catch COVID?” It’s a heart-wrenching moment every single time. You think of the mortality this
The beginning of the Licentiate Medicine Curricula in the University of Santo Tomas was adopted from the program of Spain in 1877. When the UST Faculty of Medicine and surgery opened its doors to the first batch of medical students in 1871, the graduates obtained a Licentiate in Medicine. Graduates
