As physicians, we spend much of our professional lives controlling risk factors one patient at a time. Stop smoking. Control blood pressure. Lower cholesterol. Exercise.
In medicine, we are trained to identify the patient. Sometimes that is not as straightforward as it seems. An elderly woman comes to clinic with
There is something deeply reassuring about seeing floodwater finally recede. After days of anxiety, families return home, roads reopen and cleanup begins. We naturally feel
Every rainy season, we Filipinos prepare almost instinctively. We check the weather forecast, bring out the umbrellas, clear the gutters, and brace ourselves for flooded
In medicine, the foundational directive is primum non nocere—first, do no harm. In public health and economic development, this mandate must be extended to national
Medicine has become remarkably successful at treating heart attacks, diabetes, kidney failure, and strokes. Yet we often overlook the common pathway leading to these conditions.
“The greatest achievement of the immune system is not that it knows how to fight. It is that it knows when not to.” Every day,
COVID-19 has taught medicine many lessons. Perhaps the most important is that fear and complacency are equally poor guides. The virus has not disappeared, but
One of the greatest triumphs of modern medicine is that people are living longer than ever before. A century ago, infectious diseases claimed countless lives
Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases known to humanity, yet it remains one of the most revealing. It tells us not only about bacteria
