(Kevin Tristan Espiritu/ The Medical City/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said that not all individuals infected with the SARS-CoV-2 or the virus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have experienced the same signs and symptoms. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario...
COVID-positive residents of Makati City with mild symptoms and who are on home quarantine will get home care packages starting this week from the local government. (Photo courtesy of Makati City LGU) Mayor Abigail “Abby” Binay has ordered the distribution of COVID-19 home care packages this...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSISTS Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features” Milan Kundera (b. 1929), Czech author, critic. Immortality , pt. 1, ch. 3 (1991). No one wants her face to sag. The idea scares vain women...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “All of this and the curious knee-cap fitted above the wrought greaves...” Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) U.S. poet “Loss” in “Sea Garden” (1916) Life is harsh. We say a woman’s legs are ugly if they are bony and her kneecaps, knobby. We say a...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d!” William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet and hymnodist Walking with God (c.1779) Here’s a conundrum: Here you are WFH (working from home) and yet – you’re stressed (!). It comes as an irony that William...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “All the best days of life slip away from us poor mortals first; illnesses and dreary old age and pain sneak up and the fierceness of harsh death snatches away.” Virgil (7-19 BC) Roman poet Georgics No. 3, 1. 66 (36-29 B.C.) You’ve taken your early...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Come lovely and soothing death” Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet “Leaves of Grass” (1900) I missed my mother’s death that Friday by an hour or so. I was at the Philippine Orthopedic Center seeing OPD patients when my sister from the US...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them.” Epictetus (A.D. c.50-c.138), Greek Stoic in Discourses. Chap. xxiv. (A.D. 101) While the DOH churns out its daily census of COVID-19 new infections, deaths and...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSISTS Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. When Manila heats up past 40°C, it’s time to worry about getting too much of the sun. All of these contribute to the onset of heat emergencies: • High temperatures or humidity • Prolonged or excessive exercise • ...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “O Jesus, send me a wound to-day” Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English poet and novelist The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918) Stand-to Good Friday Morning Swearing “Ma-tetano ka sana!” (“I pray you get tetanus!”) quickly dates you as...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Go, said Jesus, your faith has healed you.” ( Mark 10:52) The verse is not exactly complete. The rest of it is “Immediately, he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.” Is there an overlap between miracles and placebos? “Placebo”...
The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) said on Monday, May 3, that the clinical trial on the use of Ivermectin as a treatment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will involve patients with "non-severe” or those with mild to...
