No two prescriptions may be the same. Some are totally science-based, others are experience-dictated. Some are friendship-forged and gratitude-borne; others are marketing-controlled and economics-generated.
--Cardiologist Saturnino Javier, in the essay, "The One-Billion Saga of Crestor, Lescol, Lipitor, Lipostat, Vidastat, and Zocor," in the book, Escape Beat (2004)
The level of blood pressure that is called hypertension is arbitrary. It has no scientific basis.
--Cardiologist Homobono Calleja, director emeritus of the St. Luke's Heart Institute, commenting on the differences in American and European guidelines on hypertension
Human resource is now a global resource, the way capital is regarded as a global resource. If the capital of the more developed economies move, why shouldn't the resource of developing countries?
--Labor secretary Patricia Santo Tomas, on labor
migration, quoted by Agence France-Presse
I call it medical apocalypse, the end of medical practice in the Philippines.
--Philippine Medical Association president Bu Castro, on doctors enrolling in
nursing schools to get nursing jobs abroad, quoted by Agence France-Presse
We all care about our roots, but this is really going far back.
--National Geographic Society president John Fahey, on the launch
of the "Genographic Project," quoted by Agence France-Presse
Testing indiscriminately can waste resources--money, time, and hospital beds. It can also harm our patients. For me, the most compelling reason is the harm.
Pinagastos mo na, sinaktan mo pa. That's a miserable state of medicine.
--Cardiologist Antonio Dans, talking about effective
screening for diseases among apparently healthy Filipinos
Perhaps there is still life out there.
--Lawyer Ed Tolentino of the Stroke Survivors Support
Foundation, recalling his thoughts after surviving a stroke
We will orient teenagers about the responsibility of not having children at an early age, but we will not tell them that are free to use condoms and contraceptives.
--Health secretary Manuel Dayrit, quoted by Agence France-Presse
Research requires a lot of funds…. It is not a priority of the government so we cannot expect funds to come from the government.
--Pediatric neurologist Lillian Lee, talking about the problem of getting funds
to maker the Philippine Children's Medical Center a research center
Contraceptives are a first step towards killing the unborn and are instruments that favor abortion.
--Lingayen-Dagupan archbishop Oscar Cruz, quoted by Agence France-Presse
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