IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “What is vertigo? . . . It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” – Milan Kundera (1929-), French - Czech writer, The Unbearable Lightness of Being...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “People brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a cot.” – Matthew 9:2, Common English Bible. To injure the spine and what it protects, the spinal cord, upends a life in an instant. If you break your neck with the cord crushed, everything...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “People brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a cot.” – Matthew 9:2 , Common English Bible. To injure the spine and what it protects, the spinal cord, upends a life in an instant. If you break your neck with the cord crushed, everything...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. – Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet. “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” Collected Poems (1952). This is just the...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Adios, queridosseres, morir es descansar.” — (Farewell to all I love; to die is to rest) Jose Rizal (1861 – 1896), Filipino nationalist and polymath Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell) (1892) In 1892, at around the time that Jose Rizal was...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-British philosopher on his deathbed, with prostate cancer Below a man’s urinary bladder and in front of his rectum lies a gland the size, the anatomist Henry...
Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “We thought the sky, the sky would never fall.” – Michael Franks (b. 1944), U.S. singer/songwriter “Mr. Blue” The Art of Tea (1975) If you’re an 80s (or late 70s) person, you’ve heard the songs of Michael Franks. He was in Manila in 1981...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST DR. JOSE PUJALTE JR. “Here I and sorrows sit.” – William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright King John , Act. iii, Scene 1 (1623) Not that we have obliterated smoking as a health hazard – society continues to a pay a price for a smoking public in...
