Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles is pushing for the distribution of virgin coconut oil (VCO) in hospitals outside the National Capital Region plus (NCR plus) as supplemental treatment for the coronavirus disease. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (Nograles/Facebook) Nograles has started to hold...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.” – William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) English writer, Edinburgh Review, Oct 1829 The trouble with hand injuries – fractures...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “Here I and sorrows sit...” – William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright King John , Act. iii, Scene 1 (1623) Does “work from home” mean sitting for long periods in front of the laptop too? Why is a zoom meeting done sitting down? Dr. Jose Pujalte,...
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...
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...
