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Of headaches and coughs
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Close call on rehabilitation
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Last in, last out….
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Orthopedics six years after residency training, what now?
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Do you want your healthcare professionals or healthcare institutions to have a social media policy?
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Do you have a social media policy in your healthcare institution?
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Serving communities near one’s previous home…
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Do we need a law that protect healthcare providers if they disclose or confess medical errors?
Social Media
Do you want your healthcare professionals or healthcare institutions to have a social media policy?
Yesterday I started a survey asking healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses and allied medical professionals) if their healthcare institutions have a social media usage policy. (If you’re a healthcare professional you can still… Read more
Do you have a social media policy in your healthcare institution?
Philippines ranks first in the global social media penetration according to a February 2011 market survey by Global Web Index. In this survey, it was also pointed out that asian countries… Read more
Should health care professionals in developing countries have a social media presence?
The short answer is yes, they should. Consider this: The Philippines, a developing country, is the social networking capital of the world. It tops the list of nations who uses Facebook. Or… Read more
It’s personal but not too private: Why Are we stuck with writing and blogging? (TBR:VFD II First Ed)
We love to write, no question about that. Like Doc Stef , most of us would love to write the Anais Nin way: To write. To sit down with pen and… Read more
Orthopedic practice
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Close call on rehabilitation
In the past, I work closely with rehabilitation physician in the course of treating my patients. Since I went into private practice in the province though the lack of a… Read more
- Last in, last out....
- Orthopedics six years after residency training, what now?
- Should new technologies in medicine threaten one's (old) practice?
Medical Education
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Challenge and fun of developing a clinical pathway
When evidence based medicine (EBM) came to the halls of PGH during my residency training, I was one of those few who “liked” its surge because of its “collaborative” approach… Read more
- Should health care professionals in developing countries have a social media presence?
- How to use an RSS Reader to sift through thousands of medical information in minutes!
- Reviving the physician's administrative function
Health Politics
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Do we need a law that protect healthcare providers if they disclose or confess medical errors?
Central to correcting medical errors is accepting one first, if it did happen. Improvement in healthcare delivery will only happen if we learn from our mistakes and make concrete, active steps to rectify it…. Read more
- Blind Eye: Unabated rising number of motorcycle accidents
- A Perspective on Non-Compliant Patients and the Contractual Doctor-Patient Relationship
- Where's health and education now Mr. President?
Personal
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Orthopedics six years after residency training, what now?
I just came back from an orthopedic fellow’s convention and the Ruby Anniversary (40th) celebration of my former orthopedic training institution. Aside from the maxed out celebration with former (tor)mentors and… Read more
- Serving communities near one's previous home...
- Loyal patient watchers..
- Don't ever wake me up!


