"It is very important to differentiate semantic from biologic similarities."
-DR. CHRISTINE BERNAL, pediatric rheumatologist,
on why children with rheumatic diseases should not be
treated like adult patients
"Half of all suicides are linked to alcohol, and one-third of all suicides have been [committed by] alcohol-dependent persons."
-JOUKO LOENNQVIST,
head of the mental-health
department, National Public Health Institute, Finland, on
the decline of suicides in Finland
"[Acupuncture] has no side effect, as long as you really use proper technique, proper aseptic method, and you [are] well trained."
-DR. TERESITA CHU-UY,
acupuncturist, Manila Doctors
Hospital Pain Management and Wellness Center, on the use
of acupuncture in low-back pain
"Kung oras mo na, oras mo na talaga. God's been very good to me.
Naging maganda naman ang buhay ko with my career, family, and friends."
-RUDY FERNANDEZ, actor, on living with periampullary cancer
"I feel like I'm in prison."
-A 25-YEAR-OLD SOUTH AFRICAN PATIENT with extreme drug-resistant
tuberculosis, on being dissuaded from leaving the hospital for public-health reasons
"I think he had a one-to-one talk with God during his time in the ICU, wherein he said
na kung gusto na siyang kunin, kunin na siya. Wag na lang pahirapan."
-LORNA TOLENTINO, actress, on Rudy Fernandez's battle with cancer
"Di ko na lang iniisip na may sakit ako dahil lalo ko lang nararamdaman."
-RHENIEL WAGAN, a young patient living with deep-vein thrombosis
