A physician-writer exploring medicine, movement, learning, recovery, and the outdoors.

I’m an orthopedic surgeon in the Philippines with longstanding interests in reflective practice, lifelong learning, healthcare systems, movement and longevity, and the ways people adapt through injury, uncertainty, transition, and time.

Over the years, this site has evolved through many phases — medicine, technology, teaching, advocacy, photography, hiking, systems thinking, and quieter forms of reflection. What remained consistent was the attempt to keep writing through those transitions.

Today, remomd.com functions less as a traditional medical blog and more as a longitudinal writing practice: a place for essays, notes, observations, and ongoing questions about physician life, movement, recovery, learning, and the search for sustainable ways of living and working.

Some essays emerge from clinical practice. Others from trails, books, conversations, rebuilding projects, or periods of reinvention outside medicine itself.

I’m increasingly interested in how people maintain curiosity, resilience, attention, and meaning over long professional lives — especially in medicine, where identity can easily narrow around productivity alone.

This site is intentionally minimal. The goal is not constant publishing or polished expertise, but continuity: to keep observing, learning, and writing over time.