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There’s a reason why coffee tastes bitter that not even too much sugaring can possibly weaken–both the reason and the taste. Like this one that lingers in my mouth as I am writing this–the mystery of which remains unclear–I am in the dark about a lo…
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The Missus: So what time are we going out today?
Me: Uh, after lunch.. 3PM
The Missus: Oh ok
Me: (as soon as the caffeine kicks in… *snicker*)
Life would be much more interesting if we had thought bubbles coming out of our heads…
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Fiesta sa San Agustin, isang purok dito sa amin, noong Huebes.
Inilaban ni Kulot ang manok namin sa sabong. At dahil takot akong sumugal ng malaki, maliit lang ang napanalunan namin.
Nasa parlor ako noong ibinalita ni Kulot ang pagkapanalo namin.
“Eto o, kulang na yan ng dalawang daan, binalato ko kay kuya,” sabi nya.
Binilang ko ang pera. Tama naman. Kinuha ko ang perang ipinusta ko.
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a href=”http://www.greek-gods-and-goddesses.com/images/pandoras-box.jpg” onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” style=”clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img alt=”" border=”0″ height=”215″ src=”http://www.greek-gods-and-goddesses.com/images/pandoras-box.jpg” width=”188″ //aAccording to ancient Greek mythology, Pandora opened the “box” (actually a jar which Zeus entrusted but forebode her to open) because of one uncontrollable urge-span style=”font-style: italic;”curiosity/span. The opening of Pandora’s box released all “human evils” kept inside the jar by Zeus, except one human trait.br /
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div style=”text-align: center;”span style=”font-size: 85%;”span style=”font-style: italic;”(Pandora’s Box Painting by JW Waterhouse)/span/span/divbr /
In one striking parallelism, the current brain drain of professionals is rooted in one analogous reason. Better financial and professional opportunities abroad fueled the curiosity of homegrown professionals to go on an exodus and opened the lid of our Pandora’s box.br /
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No other profession suffered more scrutinizing eyes than what physicians received in this brain drain phenomenon . Believing that this mandatory return of service will close the exodus of professionals from the country, a congressman filed span style=”font-weight: bold;”HB 4580/span requiring all professionals to a mandatory return of service after training here in the Philippines. Ironically, while the government is drum rolling OFWs as the nation’s new heroes (cultivating the exodus of skilled workers in exchange for dollar remittances) it is quick to criticize physicians who thread the same path of seeking better opportunities abroad. Worse, labeling these physicians as unpatriotic offers the most hideous method of enticing them to come back, and appeal to their nationalistic pride. Why is the government capitalizing on the OFW phenomenon but openly shun doctors planning going out?br /
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Some medical training institutions have tried to close this Pandora’s box with a “lid” of their own. The span style=”font-weight: bold;”UP College of Medicine/span, a government subsidized university, has approved a three year mandatory return of service for its medical graduates. Other government funded medical training institutions have their own return of service program in place as part of a medical training contract for years already. The penultimate questions still remain.br /
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Was it successful in preventing the brain drain of physicians?br /
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Was it able to solve the worsening physician -patient service ratio?br /
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Is this a a wise move to close our Pandora’s box?br /
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span style=”font-weight: bold;”Doc Mel/span ( a href=”http://thephilippinedailyidiot.blogspot.com/”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Philippine Daily Idiot/span/aspan style=”text-decoration: underline;”span style=”font-weight: bold;”) /span/spana href=”http://thephilippinedailyidiot.blogspot.com/2008/08/tbr17-last-week-sobrang-nakakatawa-ang.html”span style=”font-weight: bold;”didn’t think so/span/a. Here’s his egg laying bird nest appraisal of this move:br /
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blockquoteStraight to the point: forcing our dear motherland’s brightest med future (naks, UP med students) after graduation to serve three years in the country smacks of a short-term Band Aid in one thickening subplot of the Philippine Zombie Healthcare System./blockquoteand some more egg laying truth..br /
blockquoteA short-term Band Aid is maybe ok NOT because it is cheap and high-impact. It is ok if only because it is one prong in an all-out multi-pronged approach to a problem. To be charitable about it, give it to the government that it is tinkering with every way possible to do it./blockquoteMost of us in the industry feel this move is a good start, but should be part of wider and broader long term solution to the brain drain and dwindling patient to physician ratio in the health care system.br /
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a href=”http://health.tesstermulo.com/”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Prudence MD/span/a a href=”http://health.tesstermulo.com/?p=477″lauds/a this span style=”font-weight: bold;”UPCM/span move a href=”http://health.tesstermulo.com/?p=477″span style=”font-weight: bold;”(Is Hb4580 the solution to Philippine’s brain drain?)/span/a:br /
blockquoteI find it fair enough that medical students whose education have been subsidized using taxpayer’s money should be required to render a certain amount of time for medical service to the country. Also, I believe this should be applied to graduates of any other courses in all state universities./blockquoteSo doesspan style=”font-weight: bold;” a href=”http://megamomph.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/starting-somewhere/”Pinay Megamom/a/span here (a href=”http://megamomph.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/starting-somewhere/”Starting somewhere/a):br /
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blockquoteI laud UP for making this move. However, its effectiveness to try and address the bigger issues remain to be seen. If other measures are taken to address the other contributing factors to brain-drain (compensation, professional satisfaction, work conditions, etc…), in conjunction with this move, we may actually see some changes for the better. It’s a start./span/blockquotespan id=”fullpost”and span style=”font-weight: bold;”Joey MD/span here (a href=”http://www.joeymd.com/2008/08/26/return-service-mechanism/”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Solution to healthcare?/span/a)br /
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blockquoteI do not think that this will ultimately result in better health care, but it’s a good start. At least, this program will try to ensure that there will be enough MDs, hopefully, to serve the people’s health care needs, assuming that the enrollment in UP Medicine is about the same every year./blockquoteBut weather it will end up in a better health care system on its own, we all sing a united “I doubt it this is a long term solution on its own.”br /
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Several issues and potential caveats where raised by blogger MDs themselves that needs to be addressed if this mandatory return of service will make its impact on our zombie health care industry. Cautioning the government that even HB4580 is not the only solution to this current brain drain, it also has to make appropriations and just compensation for those who choose to work here.br /
ullia href=”http://health.tesstermulo.com/”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Prudence MD/span /acautions that it is unjust to impose this rule on privately trained professionals./li
lispan style=”font-weight: bold;”Mel B/span warned that this band aid approach is a single pronged approached to a otherwise multi pronged problem. And he espoused a “global” caffeine injected solution to a zombie, global capitalist health care system./li
lispan style=”font-weight: bold;”a href=”http://www.joeymd.com/”Joey MD/a /spanechoed the same sentiments of strengthening other aspects of the health care industry (e.g. budget, facilities, health care education)/li
lispan style=”font-weight: bold;”Pinay Megamom/span insists that provisions for adequately compensating those who are forced to work here.br /
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/ulUnaddressed, these issues are the same reason why most professionals leave the country. This is what span style=”font-weight: bold;”JA/span (a href=”http://jaaraf.blogspot.com/” style=”font-weight: bold;”Ripples from the river of my though/aspan style=”font-weight: bold;”t/span) put forth in her blog (a href=”http://jaaraf.blogspot.com/2008/08/here-there-or-anywhere.html”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Here, there or Anywhere/span/a)br /
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blockquoteI don’t think that creating laws to keep people from leaving are going to be helpful in the long run though. What is necessary is for young doctors to feel that they are justly compensated during training and actual clinical practice in our country. That way, they will have more reasons to stay than a feeling of obligation to serve the country./blockquoteAnd if we are threading in to the realm of cutting liberties and human rights of physicians in the name of public service, them we might have missed the root cause of this problem. Just like what span style=”font-weight: bold;”Anakat/span ( a href=”http://anakat-thesagacontinues.blogspot.com/” style=”font-weight: bold;”The Saga Continues/a) in “a href=”http://anakat-thesagacontinues.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-never-been-secret-among-my.html”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Exodus part 2/span/a” is saying.br /
blockquoteI am not an expert on human rights or related laws but there has to be a breach of this in the government’s decision to pass this house bill. UP used to be a staunch protector of these rights and freedom. My alma mater has let me down by devising this return service mechanism./blockquoteIn a democratic institution, where does the freedom of a professional ( to choose where to practice) ends and that of public service starts??Or does it end at all? These lines simply put a good thinking salvo on this issue.br /
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In an attempt to close this Pandora box, the various stakeholders tried but failed to understand why the lid was opened in the first place. And while starting a band aid solution to the brain drain problem seem laudable, it has yet to prove its impact on the health care system fraught with vulnerabilities.br /
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Sadly, we fail to discern the reason(s) why our box was opened in the first place. Knowing these reasons and addressing them primarily, maybe we will have a better shot in closing this Pandora’s box. Hope is only what’s left inside this box.br /
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(To the MD bloggers who contributed to this edition of TBR, thank you all! span style=”font-weight: bold;”Prudence MD/span will be hosting TBR 18, for another interestingly relevant topic of our times, ibThe State of Reproductive Health Care in the Philippines/b/i)/span/spandiv class=”blogger-post-footer”Bone MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and a Fellow of Philippine Orthopedic Association practicing in the hinterlands of Southern Mindanao, Philippines. He took up medicine at the UP College of Medicine and finish his Orthopedic Training at UP-PGH Department of Orthopedics. He is a visiting consultant in the Department of Orthopedics, Davao Medical Center and several other hospitals in South Mindanao area./div
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Here ye, here ye! A *major* update for the Daily Top 10 Posts plugin for Wordpress! Since version 2.5 I’ve received reports that the plugin breaks the admin panel, amongst several other compatibility issues. I addressed all of these in the newest version. Here’s a rundown of new features:
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span style=”font-size:85%;”span style=”font-family:trebuchet ms;”What is interesting about the Olympics is that it is never just about the sports. Take for example, the Georgia-Russia beach volleyball match (I think the former won with Russia saying th…
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Cheryll Fiel’s face was washed-out—her lips chapped and pale, her eyes mirrored unspoken fear—as the aircraft struggled through the thick clouds over Davao skies Monday night.br /br /Around 20 minutes before the scheduled touch-down of the Cebu P…
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During the last Kadayawan Festival, some Metro Manila bloggers visited our city to join the festivities. One of them was famed Filipina WP Theme designer, Gaile “Kutitots” Villanueva.
In this video interview, she talks about Davao City, the Kadayawan street kids dancers, and the food:
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In a forum where the gatekeepers of Philippine media congregate and discuss pressing concerns, MindanaoBloggers was given the opportunity to break into the consciousness of mainstream media. MediaNation is an annual convention of publishers, editors, news managers — the movers and shakers of the country’s media organizations, and it recently concluded its sixth conference.
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div style=”text-align: justify;”For somebody who loves food, losing your sense of taste is like having Alzheimer’s of the tongue. I was sick and since my sense of smell was affected I got disinterested in eating which is a rare thing. To those who think like my Mom - its not a gastrointestinal disease I picked up in some wet-market food adventure okay.:)br /br /My brother suggested that I eat something sour to rouse my sleeping buds. My choices were: Sour cream flavored potato chips OR Sinigang/Tamarind powder(I lanlan/papak this when I was a kid and I know it’s weird. Can somebody tell me what’s the English for lanlan/papak?), OR green mangoes. I settled for the green mangoes that I personally bought and peeled to avoid my Mom’s wrath.br //divdiv style=”text-align: justify;”br //divdiv style=”text-align: justify;”I started regaining my food powers and what better way to roadtest my taste buds with a Tuna-themed dinner at Marina Tuna!br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIFfM4gNpI/AAAAAAAAB7A/ujYnOvU5HGo/s1600-h/IMG_1550.JPG”img style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIFfM4gNpI/AAAAAAAAB7A/ujYnOvU5HGo/s400/IMG_1550.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238255350177609362″ //abr //divbr /div style=”text-align: justify;”If you like seafood, then I suggest you pay Marina Tuna a visit. I am a fan of their Clam Chowder and their succulent Grilled Swordfish Belly which tastes like pork - PROMISE! So if you have pork issues then this has got to be a good substitute. br /br /There is a small detail about Marina that I truly appreciate: They provide you with lots of calamansi (Philippine lemon). I don’t like the 1 anorexic calamansi: 1 customer ratio of other restaurants since I personally use 2 pieces. At Marina, they give you extra calamansi. You can use one or two for your dipping sauce and the rest you can rub it on your knees and elbows to make them fairer!br //divbr /div style=”text-align: justify;”For appetizers, we had Tuna Kinilaw (P200). I have yet to meet a Davaoeno who doesn’t love this. It’s a local fave. I’ve seen variations of this one from the addition of Biasong, Black beans, Tabon-Tabon, Gata, and down to the strangest - MAYONNAISE! To the rituals of not washing the fish with water, just vinegar. You have got to be a Kinilaw lover to explore the Kinilaw universe. Marina’s version belongs to the generic kind but equally delicious…radish, ginger, onions, bell pepper, cucumber, vinegar, and fresh tuna.br /br //diva onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLH-RUqPAHI/AAAAAAAAB6Y/42hse7uRtHo/s1600-h/IMG_1534.JPG”img style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLH-RUqPAHI/AAAAAAAAB6Y/42hse7uRtHo/s400/IMG_1534.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238247415165681778″ //abr /br /div style=”text-align: justify;”We had Grilled Tuna Belly(P165). As always, I ask for the Big Eye Tuna and as always, they’re out of stock! An elusive fish I cannot catch! They say Big Eye tuna is way more delectable because of its higher fat content compared to the other specie, Yellow Fin. If you see Tuna Belly (B.E.) and Tuna Belly (Y.F.), you’ll know that B.E. doesn’t mean Bery Edible. br //divbr /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIBLJiQFaI/AAAAAAAAB6w/ubDo56kyJsY/s1600-h/IMG_1539.JPG”img style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIBLJiQFaI/AAAAAAAAB6w/ubDo56kyJsY/s400/IMG_1539.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238250607635076514″ //abr /br /div style=”text-align: justify;”To deviate from the usual rice, we ordered Tuna Lugaw/Congee (P25). It’s a lovely congee with tuna bits, spring onions, and crunchy garlic. br /br //diva onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIAZBORs1I/AAAAAAAAB6g/bH1XScUNJc8/s1600-h/IMG_1536.JPG”img style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIAZBORs1I/AAAAAAAAB6g/bH1XScUNJc8/s400/IMG_1536.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238249746410353490″ //abr /br /div style=”text-align: justify;”Man cannot live on Tuna alone so there was Mongolian spare ribs(P160), for the man, Henry. He was spoiling my all-Tuna-themed getting well party. Hmph. Hehe! This one is flavorful but a bit though.br /br //diva onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIAZT5LVLI/AAAAAAAAB6o/iMeoG_p7_AI/s1600-h/IMG_1537.JPG”img style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIAZT5LVLI/AAAAAAAAB6o/iMeoG_p7_AI/s400/IMG_1537.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238249751422129330″ //abr /br /div style=”text-align: justify;”Here is an example of Corporate Social Responsibility or in Bill Gate’s words - Creative Capitalism. Just research on it okay:) Oh and in case you didn’t know, this restaurant is responsible for Mayor Duterte’s free Congee for Davaoenos.br /br //diva onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIBMiJjeuI/AAAAAAAAB64/A14Sg7WOteQ/s1600-h/IMG_1542.JPG”img style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLIBMiJjeuI/AAAAAAAAB64/A14Sg7WOteQ/s400/IMG_1542.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238250631422245602″ //abr /div style=”text-align: justify;”br //divdiv style=”text-align: justify;”It was a packed night for Marina Tuna. Service is okay although servers tend to flock in one area. They also have a seafoods market selling Tuna (Panga, Belly, Buntot, Sashimi, Steak, Strips, Loin, Trimmings, Bihod, Bagaybay,), Maslasuigui, Swordfish, Abalone, Gindara, Seabass, Pompano, Sergeant Fish, etc! For special occasions, you can also order a whole tuna(don’t forget to say Grade A and ask for a carver unless you want to multi-task and be the tuna carver donning a suit or barong!)br /br /HAPPY KADAYAWAN to all!br //divbr /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLH-RBxbzSI/AAAAAAAAB6Q/BqFj2NyXW3U/s1600-h/IMG_1531.JPG”img style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qUCpYObCtrQ/SLH-RBxbzSI/AAAAAAAAB6Q/BqFj2NyXW3U/s400/IMG_1531.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238247410095607074″ //abr /br /br /br /span style=”font-weight:bold;”Davao Marina Tuna Seafoods Market Restaurantbr /Km. 8 Pampanga, Sasa (beside Bonifacio Motors)br /Davao Citybr /Tel Nos: (082) 233-2666/235-8653/span
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A New Blog Advertising Company in the Philippines is Born and it’s officially here! Nuffnang was launched last August 27, 2008. Nuffnang is a pay per impression blog advertising company. This means that you’ll get paid for each and every unique visitor that views your blog! If you want to earn when someone visits your [...]
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Words cannot express how much I love this commercial. Being a Discovery channel nerd, I sometimes would leave my TV on the same channel so I can watch the commercial over and over again. Of course the need for that stopped when people began posting it on Youtube.
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In one of the email updates I received from Pinoy R.N., I learned that Negros Oriental Reprensentative Ignacio Arroyo filed a bill requiring Philippine registered professionals to work in the Philippines for two years before they will be allowed to lea…
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a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3J-pISBmOI8/SK0RuQrG6NI/AAAAAAAABOQ/tEtSDnmOfcc/s1600-h/cmmain.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3J-pISBmOI8/SK0RuQrG6NI/AAAAAAAABOQ/nRe_Jhn4FBs/s200-R/cmmain.jpg” //aIn an unprecedented and controversial move, the a href=”http://www.upcm.ph/2007/index.html”bUP College of Medicine/b/a (the state’s subsidized premier medical school) through its bUPCM College Council/b,nbsp; approved ioverwhelmingly/i the proposed a href=”http://www.upcm.ph/2007/upcmnews_jan_march08_1.html”bReturn Service Mechanism/b for its UPCM graduates/a during the council’s March 11, 2008 meeting. (See the details of this new bUP Medicine Admission Policy a href=”http://www.upcm.ph/2007/upcmnews_jan_march08_1.html”here/a/b).br /
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div style=”text-align: center;”nbsp;span style=”font-size: x-small;”UP College of Medicine main entrance. Legacies that lived beyond hundred years..br /
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Simply put, starting academic year 2009-2010, all freshman medical students who enter the halls of this premier medical institution, will be brequired a three (3) year return of service after they graduate before they will be allowed to go out of the country for training, further studies or employment/b. This is way ahead of that a href=”http://www.congress.gov.ph/press/details.php?pressid=2509″bHouse Bill 4580/b/a authored by bRep. Ignacio T. Arroyo/b (5th District, Negros Occidental)nbsp; that if approved into law, iwill require all Filipino professionals to render service for at least 2 years/i before they can go abroad.br /
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In my a href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/08/is-there-shortage-of-physicians-in.html”previous post here/a, I was trying to determine a href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/08/is-there-shortage-of-physicians-in.html”if there was indeed a shortage of physicians here in the Philippines/a. The scary answer is yes we have communities who have not seen any physician at all. The average density estimates of b1.2 physicians per 1000 Filipinos /b(WHO 2002) or 1.2 physicians per 10,000 Filipinos (ADB 1998) is still among the blowest/b in Asia and globally.br /
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The debate on MD brain drain and MD-RNs going abroad goes protracted and ironically, is still unresolved or acted upon by major stakeholders. Majority of the Filipinos still suffer from the lack of physicians especially in the provinces. This fact still hounds us all and especially the physicians.br /
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bIs the this move by /bbUP College of Medicine, the government’s premier medical school and that of HB 4580 of trying to stop this “exodus” and lack of physicians by requiring doctors and professionals to render service to the countrymen/bb a valid one?/bbr /
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bWill the provisions of these policies offer solutions to this half a century of professionals leaving our country?/bbr /
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If you think so, maybe you can elucidate some more. If you think not, please say so and elaborate on your answers. In fact, you can give recommendations and suggestion to these policies and laws so your opinion(s) will be read!br /
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That will be the topic for the b17th/b edition of bThe Blog Rounds/b- bMandatory Return of Service for Professionals: Closing the Pandora’s Box/b?br /
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Submit your link and title to my email ikokegulper(at)yahoo(dot)com/i or leave a link by commenting to this post!Deadline for blog articles will be on bTuesday August 26, 2008. /b/spandiv class=”blogger-post-footer”Bone MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and a Fellow of Philippine Orthopedic Association practicing in the hinterlands of Southern Mindanao, Philippines. He took up medicine at the UP College of Medicine and finish his Orthopedic Training at UP-PGH Department of Orthopedics. He is a visiting consultant in the Department of Orthopedics, Davao Medical Center and several other hospitals in South Mindanao area./div
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The span style=”font-weight: bold;”World Health Organization/span (WHO) use these a href=”http://www.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select_process.cfm?country=phlamp;indicators=healthpersonnel#”span style=”font-weight: bold;”core health indicators/span/a to determine the status of health and healthcare delivery systems in a particular country. One of these indicators directly concern me as a Filipino physician. It actually scares me the most.br /
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span style=”font-weight: bold;”Is there a shortage of physicians in the Philippines?/spanbr /
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To answer this question, I tried searching available statistics in the net, evaluated the credibility of these sources and studied the parameters in understanding these statistics. The results surprised me more than being confused some more.br /
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Take a look at this graphical presentations and their sources.br /
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div style=”text-align: center;”a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3J-pISBmOI8/SKv8qv5BaBI/AAAAAAAABOA/msTi1tuipfM/s1600-h/BMHistoComplexe.jpg” onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}”img alt=”" border=”0″ id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236556803088672786″ src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3J-pISBmOI8/SKv8qv5BaBI/AAAAAAAABOA/msTi1tuipfM/s320/BMHistoComplexe.jpg” style=”cursor: pointer; height: 262px; width: 507px;” //a/divdiv style=”text-align: center;”span style=”font-size: 85%;”A graph representing the estimated number of physician(s)per 1,000 Filipinos from 1960 to 2002 (Source the WHO and reproduced a href=”http://worldperspective.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/servlet/BMTendanceStatPays?codeTheme=3amp;codeStat=SH.MED.PHYS.ZSamp;codePays=PHLamp;compareMonde=2amp;definitionMinimum=1amp;codeTheme2=1amp;codeStat2=xamp;langue=en”here/a)/spanbr /
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div style=”text-align: left;”span style=”font-size: 100%;”The same data noted the following trends:/span/div/divblockquotediv style=”text-align: left;”For the whole of the period 1960-2002, an annual mean of 0.4 is recorded for this country. 1997 shows the highest level (1.2),1992 records the lowest (0.1). In this case, the registered change equals 695%. These numbers are based on the results for 14 years of the period 1960-2002. span style=”font-size: 100%;” /span/div/blockquoteTake note, 695% increase, in 42 years. According to this data, there is approximately 1.2 physician per 1,000 Filipinos. Roughly, the same estimates as that of WHO listed a href=”http://www.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select_process.cfm?country=phlamp;indicators=healthpersonnel#”here/a.br /
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Compare this statistic with that published in a href=”http://www.ehealth.ph/index.php?option=com_weblinksamp;task=viewamp;catid=29amp;id=107″span style=”font-weight: bold;”Philippines Special Report: The Health Care System in the Philippines/span/a December 2001 produced by span style=”font-weight: bold;”MCA Ltd. Virtual-Asia.combr /
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div style=”text-align: center;”span style=”font-weight: bold;”a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3J-pISBmOI8/SKwVHCKEiXI/AAAAAAAABOI/ZT1Na8E9AqU/s1600-h/ADB.jpg” onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}”img alt=”" border=”0″ id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236583677307423090″ src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3J-pISBmOI8/SKwVHCKEiXI/AAAAAAAABOI/ZT1Na8E9AqU/s320/ADB.jpg” style=”cursor: pointer; height: 319px; width: 470px;” //a/span/divspan style=”font-weight: bold;”br /
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blockquoteAccording to bAsian Development Bank/b there is approximately bone doctor per 9,869 /bFilipinos…/blockquoteWhichever statistics you’re believing compare that with the regional and worldwide statistics in this graph.br /
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div style=”text-align: center;”span style=”font-size: 85%;”Physician density per 10000 population per region (2008)/span/divspan style=”font-size: 85%;”/spanbr /
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One thing is for sure. bWe lag behind our Asian neighbors and globally!/bbr /
blockquotespan style=”font-weight: bold;”How big is the impact of this indicator in the over all health care delivery system of the country?/span/blockquoteThat I hope I can answer in my future post!/spandiv class=”blogger-post-footer”Bone MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and a Fellow of Philippine Orthopedic Association practicing in the hinterlands of Southern Mindanao, Philippines. He took up medicine at the UP College of Medicine and finish his Orthopedic Training at UP-PGH Department of Orthopedics. He is a visiting consultant in the Department of Orthopedics, Davao Medical Center and several other hospitals in South Mindanao area./div
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I’ve been so busy with the planning and preparations for WordCamp Philippines 2008 — an international bloggers’ event which we will hold at the College of St. Benilde in Manila, and at Bryan’s Grill & Café here in Davao — that I haven’t had the chance (or the energy) to try out new restaurants in [...]
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I went back to Cafe Andessa. But this time, we were hosted by Sue Ann Orig as part of the Davao Food Trip.
The Davao Food Trippers ordered Ceasar’s Salad, Spicy Chicken Wings, Laing, Callos, Crispy Fried Buntot ng Tuna, Rosemary Grilled Chops, and Chicken Lollipop. Among these, the Chicken Wings and the Chops [...]
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span style=”;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;” lang=”EN-GB” Despite the several ruckuses over the supposed fake, CG-ed fireworks during the opening, under-aged Chinese girls competing in the artistic gymnastics and even the shameless lip-synchi…
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Davao City’s bid to become a leading ICT hub in the Philippines got a boost last week when Hewlett-Packard Philippines Corp. launched a corporate marketing strategy called “HP City”. This program is HP Philippines’ way of contributing to the growth of the technology sectors in Davao City.
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Boredom, is one thing I hate from being “incapacitated” by span style=”font-style: italic;”-a href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/08/oh-well-it-hurts.html”itises/a/spana href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/08/oh-well-it-hurts.html” of some sort/a. During these times, watching reruns on DVD and teevee is hatefully irritating!br /br /I am a person span style=”font-style: italic;”who can’t/span settle down longer than one minute without doing something. And if there is something that would kill me, it’s span style=”font-style: italic;”boredom/span rather than the disease!br /br /But, enough for that whining and ranting. Lets get back to blogging.br /br /First, I missed a href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-rounds-blogging-our-way-through.html”span style=”font-weight: bold;”TBR/span/a. This twice monthly grand rounds in the medical blogosphere went into hibernation for two weeks. I lost track of assigning a host blogger.No host, ergo no rounds. My apologies to all a href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/03/tbr-list-of-blogger-contributors.html”span style=”font-weight: bold;”TBR/span bloggers/a and readers.br /br /Starting this week, TBR hosting will go on it’s second round, with a href=”http://health.tesstermulo.com/”span style=”font-weight: bold;”Prudence MD/span/a volunteering to host the coming week’s TBR rounds. The succeeding hosting schedule will follow the cascading schedules as of before. I will post the schedule ina href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-rounds-archives-and-schedule.html”TBR archives sections/a soon. Hopefully, this will all be a relaxed schedule since TBR is published online every two weeks now rather than weekly.br /br /I’m still pushing through with thea href=”http://orthologbook.blogspot.com/2008/07/medical-blogging-summit-anyone.html” span style=”font-weight: bold;”Medical Blogging Summit/span/a and the span style=”font-style: italic;”organizing committee/span that will brainstorm on it.span style=”font-weight: bold;” I need volunteers for the org comm/span and I have approached some TBR bloggers actually via emails and comments. As Ive said before, we can have a mini i-ball in span style=”font-style: italic;”Manila/span this late span style=”font-style: italic;”August/span or early span style=”font-style: italic;”September/span (around a href=”http://kokegulper.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/so-whos-going-to-the-word-camp-philippines-2008/”span style=”font-weight: bold;”WordCamp/span/a time) to lay the ground work for the medical blogging summit. For those who wanted to join the org comm please email me or leave comments on my post so I can get your details and phone number.br /br /I think that’s all what my left hand can type for now!div class=”blogger-post-footer”Bone MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and a Fellow of Philippine Orthopedic Association practicing in the hinterlands of Southern Mindanao, Philippines. He took up medicine at the UP College of Medicine and finish his Orthopedic Training at UP-PGH Department of Orthopedics. He is a visiting consultant in the Department of Orthopedics, Davao Medical Center and several other hospitals in South Mindanao area./div
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Siya si Kenjo, ang baby bayot.
Dala-dala sya ng Nanay niyang si Julie noong nagbakasyon kami sa Bali-Bali Beach Resort sa Island Garden City of Samal dalawang linggo na ang nakakaraan.
Anim na taong gulang pa lang si Kenjo pero sigurado na akong bakla sya. Kita naman sa photo niya.
At dahil nasa Kinder II na ang bading, absent sya noong magliwaliw kami. At sa pagbalik nya, ni-require sya
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I’m not a Beauty Blogger, but I’m starting to be one, Hehe. This is my first post about beauty tips and advice(Naku Jehzlau ano nang nagyari sayooOO??). Ahmmm… I’m really not into beauty blogging and have no plans in creating a niche about beauty tips and other related stuff. So why I’m blogging about this? [...]
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This year, bloggers are enjoined to discuss and be part of the revolution. October 15, 2008 is this year’s Blog Action Day. The topic is “Poverty,” what it and what can be done:
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
All bloggers, podcasters, vloggers from all over the world are enjoined [...]
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I care if Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is “president” after 2010. I care because I am a Filipino, and concerned about this country and the welfare of its people.
I care because GMA has been accused of lying, cheating, and stealing, and she has shown no proof that she is not one.
I care because GMA and her [...]
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Last Sunday I almost tripped the hot soup I was transferring onto a bowl while watching the Argentina-Australia football (soccer) match. I think I must have shouted too. You can feel the anguish and anxiety in the Argentines’ kicks and butts and afte…
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As I sit here beside youbr /I realized how our lives are enmeshedbr /intertwined like our hands nowbr /That when you’ll let gobr /My hand can still scratch, hold, touchbr /go about it’s routinebr /do what hands normally dobr /but it will always gr…
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Marami na ang nagtanong sa akin kung kumusta na ang pinatayo naming bakery ni Kulot. An sagot ko- tapos na sya. Aktuali, tapos na ang main “building.” Pero andami pang kailangang gawin, bilhin.
Nirechannel ko kasi ang budget.
Nagretire kasi noong May ang nanay ko. At dahil alam nyang mabuburyo sya sa bahay, nagparinig na magpapatayo daw sya ng tindahan sa may gate sa amin. Sabi niya, may pera
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I’m filled with overwhelming pride for my food blog, Davao Delicious, for belonging to the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2008. This blog, which I started in November 2007, placed #8 (together with Music Picks) in Janette Toral’s annual writing project for bloggers.
I’d like to thank all the bloggers who have nominated my [...]
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The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2008 was a huge success! Congratulations to the 12 winners! Thanks also to the sponsors, specially to PRC Board Exam Results, yay!
In no particular order, because I forgot the correct order, hehe:
Manila Foodistas
Filipino Voices
Visit Sagada
Bariles Republic
Fritzified
Da Who
Missing Carlo
The Not So Talented Delfin Montano
You Got Tech
Mar Roxas for President [...]
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PUTANA, a very dear friend who is comfortably holed in one of the palaces surrounding Kremlin–functioning only, sanely, upon the the desires of one the youngest of the young guards of Putin–sent me a letter. br /br /He gave me a mountful upon learnin…
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Oh, I never knew that it was already closed until I received a text message from someone in heaven informing me that it was indeed closed! WordCamp Philippines Registration is now closed! Again, it’s closed! as in closed! as in sarado! The Usual Suspects are now finalizing the list of bloggers who will be attending [...]
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divSearching my drafts… I found this tag… I might as well do it before I forget all about this…br /br /and besides how fitting.. it’s 8/8/8 today.br /br /every church is full for weddings, baptisms…..br /new business establishments waited for this day to have their grand opening…br /br /and would it be lucky if the guy would propose today? would the girl really say yes? :)br /br /Tagged by span style=”text-decoration: underline;”Pepe/spanspan style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0);”strong and a style=”font-weight: normal;” href=”http://nlzv.wordpress.com/”Ate Nona/a span style=”font-weight: normal;”and Ate /spana style=”font-weight: normal;” href=”http://neiyomee.blogspot.com/”Naomi/aspan style=”font-weight: normal;” tagged my a href=”http://angelblush.net/”Dance of Life/a blog.br /br //spanThe Rules:/strong Each person should post the rules first before their lists, then they should write 8 things about themselves, tag and link 8 other people and then let those people know that they had been tagged so they will know what to do….br /br /emstrong”8 RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME”/strong/em /spanbr //divbr /olbr /liI am a person who enjoys talking to people with the same “wavelength” as mine. I kind of find it hard to keep a good conversation flowing if the wavelengths don’t match. Not that I don’t like to talk but it’s just a bit hard… if the wavelength’s a bit off? you know what I mean?br //libr /liWhen it comes to chips I prefer Taquitos, Kornets and Cheese Ring. Any cheese flavored chips will do also./liliI love books. This is actually an obvious fact and since this is totally random I am including it here na lang. Check a href=”http://espressobreak.blogspot.com/”Espresso Break/a.br //liliEnjoys traveling. But, when it comes to traveling - I enjoy road trips better.br //liliIs curious about other dimensions, angels, and a whole lot of mysterious, enchanting things. I don’t talk much about it though. Oh, actually it depends on who I am talking too.br //lilimild