"If we indiscriminately accept all the data presented to us, our patients will likely end up with multiple drugs for any purpose under the sun."
-DR. MARIE YVETTE ROSALES-AMANTe, endocrinologist, Asian Hospital and Medical Center
"The higher the economic growth, the more lives can be saved.... Health buys wealth."
-PHILIP STEVENS, director, Health Programme of the International Policy Network, at a forum organized by the Asian Institute of Management in October
"Current efforts and resources are not yet commensurate to what we can actually achieve and need to achieve. We hope to catalyze new actions and galvanize partnerships that can help us turn our mission … from more than just a moral imperative into certainly measurable health outcomes."
-Health secretary FRANCISCO DUQUE III at the Perinatal Association of the Philippines annual convention
"We have Bantay Bata here or kids' watch, but there's no such thing as a Bantay Matanda, no hotline whatsoever for the elderly."
-DR. JOE ELEAZAR, geriatric-psychology expert, on the problem of "elderly abuse"
"We are actually shaping the life inside the womb, not really after birth."
-DR. PILAR LAGMAN-DY, obstetrician/gynecologist, St. Luke's College of Medicine, speaking about "prenatal programming"
"People would not want to work for a company seen as irresponsible. If the community sees that you care, they will have malasakit as well. They will care for you in return and again, these things you can quantify."
-EDGAR CHUA, trustee, Philippine Businessfor for Social Progress, during the Philippine Coalition against Tuberculosis annual convention
"Our local medicine curriculum is western in orientation and it is the same as you would otherwise get in other parts of the world. It is geared more towards the prime practice of medicine, and hindi isya connected or aligned sa environment, which is the Philippines, a developing country with lots of poverty and infections."
-DR. EUGENE RAMOS, treasurer, Philippine College of Physicians, in a recent PCP forum
"Obviously, domestic violence will have an effect on the outcome of the pregnancy. And if we can prevent it and a lot of the psychological trauma and issues going on here, we can also ultimately prevent pregnancy-associated homicide."
-PROF. DINAH NADERA, University of the Philippines, on the dangers of domestic violence during pregnancy, at the Perinatal Association of the Philippines annual meeting
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