Family Practice
(Part 3 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) As one of the primary care fields, Family Practice (FP) has an important place in the healthcare delivery system. Its versatility of being...
View ArticleAllied Forces
(Part 3 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) During observation duty, it was noted that the healthcare system in the US maximizes staff members by getting them to work to the “top of...
View ArticleTo Choose, not just to Consent
(Part 4 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, or Commerce?) Patient awareness of diseases is high in the US. The typical source of information is the internet. This poses an interesting scenario to...
View ArticleMedical Informatics: Streamlined Efficiency or Rigid Technology?
(Part 5 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Perhaps the most striking of all aspects of US healthcare is the heavy use of information technology. Thus is posed this question: is...
View ArticleLegalities
(Part 6 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) While the Filipino patient’s legal rights may be similar or have equivalents to his/her US counterpart, there still are medical issues...
View ArticleHealth as Wealth: Managed Care
(Part 7 of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Coming from that issue on medical malpractice and physicians practicing defensive medicine, it then becomes important for someone to be...
View ArticleSynthesis
(Last Part of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Even with the professional capabilities, technical considerations, and scientific advances of medical practice in the clinical setting,...
View ArticleMy Chevening Journey to Edinburgh
IT WAS DURING one light moment at work that a question popped into my head: what should be the next step in my career path? Almost five years after I graduated from medical school, I found myself...
View ArticleFrom Guilty Pleasure to Medicinal Measure: Evolving Cannabis Policy in the...
When is a drug “therapeutic” as opposed to “recreational”? The first term connotes an established usage in clinical medicine, while the second implies use for leisure with attendant state intervention...
View ArticlePhilippine History in Around Two Minutes
I’ve been away from the Philippines for almost two months now – the longest I’ve ever been abroad. But I am enjoying #MyCheveningJourney. And because I’m feeling a bit #homesick today, I decided...
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