FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Second Regular Session
Introduced by Senator Richard J. Gordon
A RESOLUTION COMMENDING DOCTORS VIETREZ PANGANIBAN DAVID-ABELLA, MENNIE CABACANG AND AFDAL KUNTING FOR THEIR EXEMPLARY SERVICE IN PROVIDING MUCH NEEDED MEDICAL SERVICES IN DEPRESSED AND UNDERSERVED RURAL AREAS IN THE COUNTRY
WHEREAS, the Philippines’ health care delivery system is now nearing […]
The Winners of the Diamond in the Rough: The National Search for Outstanding Young Doctors in Community Setting
They are a rarity in an age when it is the norm for Filipino physicians to work and become wealthy abroad. The Phi Kappa Mu Fraternity of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and the Rotary […]
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And belated Happy Birthday!
for a Father
who, as we were growing up, always found a way to secretly slip us a few extra pesos to indulge those not-so-practical wishes
who delighted in cooking us his special meals prepared with tender, loving care
who loved to make us laugh, sometimes even at his own expense
yes
a Father who supported our dreams even when […]
By that I mean my daughter, Dr. Faye David-Paloyo. I’m not as adept as she is in posting photos, and I have to ask her to do that. But all of us in the family–Xenia greeted her for us all in Xenia’s radio broadcast last night over DZBB–wish her the happiest birthday ever, as well […]
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Diamonds in the Rough: Royal Treatment
March 18,2009
DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH: ROYAL TREATMENT
[Dr. Vietrez Panganiban-David Abella’s column,
Catanduanes Tribune, March 18, 2009]
I had forgotten when was the last time I had visited the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. Perhaps 10 years ago, or more, so much so that the many changes are hard to miss. […]
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What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the […]