"The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood."
-American president Lyndon Johnson,
in a speech in 1963
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
-Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-born American
psychiatrist, in
The Second Sin
"The most important [fellowship programs], we have here.
Yung mga super detailed na mga fellowship like those requiring high-tech instruments or gadgets are offered abroad. We have subspecialties but not to the point
na isang part lang ng body ang pinag-aaralan."
-Dr. Nicasio Nicodemus Jr., associate professor
University of the Philippines-Philippine General
Hospital, Section of Adult Medicine
"I am proud to say that the [infectious diseases] programs here in the country are just as good if not better than the ones being offered abroad, and we offer better training as far as clinical exposure is concerned for diseases that are not common there."
-Dr. Jaime Montoya, associate professor
and training officer, University of the Philippines-
Philippine General Hospital, Section
of Infectious Diseases
"[The country lacks] some programs because of the lack of people. We cannot keep them because we cannot give them what they need. We cannot give them the resources that they need and the money commensurate to their training."
-Dr. Ricardo Fernando, diabetologist and founder
University of the East-Institute for
the Study of Diabetes Foundation
"Did you know that the average Filipino eats 1,500 pounds of food per year, but the average doctor in the Philippines eats 3,000 pounds of food per year, and half of that is eaten during conventions like this?"
-Dr. Esperanza Icasas-Cabral, president,
Philippine Society of Hypertension
In a scientific symposium at the Philippine College of Physicians midyear convention
"There is no contradiction between Christianity and a piece of rubber."
-Father Mario Adolfo Domínguez of Coatepeque, Guatemala, who works with AIDS patients
Quoted by New York Times reporter
Nicolas Kristof in November
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
-American clergyman and reformer Martin
Luther King, in a speech in 1964
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