"People say I don't have a lazy bone in my body and that I must have two or four thyroids. Sometimes, I think I have a hyperactivity thing, which is ironic since I am in developmental pediatrics."
- DR. PERLA SANTOS OCAMPO, pediatrician and former chancellor, University of the Philippines Manila
"If you and I will continue to rely on traditional politicians to deliver our country from poverty, suffering, and hunger, we are being delusion. I don't expect Escudero, Legarda, Lacson, to offer me anything substantial and new. I don't expect President Arroyo to give me a new economic policy that will save our people from the disaster that you and I know we are heading."
- DR. MARTIN BAUTISTA, gastroenterologist
and former senatorial candidate
"As you grow older, you realize that the world is expanding. You begin to partake of what the world will offer. Being a master of something is not enough. The responsibilities and positions I had were mostly an unraveling of the human spirit because a person is a multidimensional-physical, social, emotional, spiritual-being."
- DR. SALVADOR SALCEDA,
ophthalmologist and
professor emeritus, UP College of Medicine
"[My vision is] to put the DSWD out of business, in the sense that there is nobody who's poor, disadvantaged, and marginalized. I know that it is an unattainable vision, but I still want to hold that as my vision, something to reach for."
- DR. ESPERANZA ICASAS-CABRAL,
cardiologist and secretary
of the Department of Social Welfare and Development
"Some of my friends were telling me not to super-subspecialize because it might be hard for me to find a job. Taking the green-card route was very enticing to a lot of my classmates and friends, but deep inside, I think I wanted to go home and try it out."
- DR. JONAS DEL ROSARIO, interventional pediatric cardiologist and head,
pediatric-cardiology department, Philippine Children's Medical Center
"Once, I rode a jeep from [the Philippine General Hospital] to Quiapo. The driver told me I did not have to pay because he remembered I was the one who delivered his wife's baby. That is the essence of my practice."
- DR. JUAN FUENTES, founder, The Medical City
department of obstetrics and gynecology
"Medicine is no place for a half-hearted desire. It has to be a whole-hearted dedication to one's work. It is difficult, yes, but there is fulfillment. You are not just in the office. But you save lives. And that makes you feel better."
- DR. CARMELA LAPITAN, urologist and research fellow, UP National Institutes of Health
"He had a good understanding of how medicine works. He didn't just follow what is the standard and this is where he differed from other doctors."
- DR. TOBY DAYRIT, on his father, the late Dr. Conrado Dayrit
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