IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, and twins even from the birth are misery and man!” — Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet, The Odyssey of Home (1726),Book vii. Line 263. When a task is “arduous and exhausting, demanding great...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “ Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.” — Mason Cooley (b. 1927). US aphorist, City Aphorisms, 7 th Selection, New York (1990) Gwarosa is the Korean equivalent of the Japanese karoshi which they describe as “sudden death due to heart...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Thou shalt not steal.” – Exodus 20:15 , The Holy Bible Let’s make it clear that indubitable, text book kleptomania (Greek for “craze for stealing”) is rare. We seem to have this habit of calling everyone and anyone who steals a “klepto.”...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “He asked water, and she gave him milk.” – The Holy Bible, Judges 5:25 Taking milk ad libitum knowing you’re lactose intolerant is much like getting into a relationship that you know is bad for you. You get a bum stomach, gas, and diarrhea – and...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “I don’t worry about getting old. I’m old already.” — George Burns (1896-1996), US entertainer For many people, independence is symbolized by the freedom and ability to drive his or her own car. Some people who can afford chauffeuring may...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;” – Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1865) We are all familiar with the ubiquitous remote control device. It’s that little thing with so much...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “ Lucio. Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow…” – William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright, Measure for Measure . Act 1 Sc. 2 It’s hard to imagine that a body part...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. My father, endearingly called “Pujie,” by friends and colleagues died in the early morning of the 12th of April, 2019. He was 90. His instructions to me were clear: There should be no vigil, no funeral. The cremation must be done post-haste but he did...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Call no man happy until he is dead.” – Aeschylus (525 BCE-456 BCE, Greek playwright “Agamemnon” (458 BCE) L.928 It was classmate Martin D. Bautista who somehow got to scribble “ Call no man happy until he is dead ” at the back of my Grant’s...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, y our heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ." — Thomas Merton OCSO (1915-1968) Trappist monk and theologian Merton, Harper and Row 80 What do you think happens in the hot and moist insides of...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.” – 2 Corinthians 4:16 The Holy Bible , English Standard Version Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. Broadcast journalist Cesar Apolinario died of an uncommon cancer last...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “To conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014), Colombian novelist, El Amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985) My perverse fascination with pandemics has not run its course. This time I looked...
