"In the past, I used to say that you're no different from a prostitute when you sell your kidneys."
- DR. REYNALDO LESACA,
head, Human Organ
Preservation Effort, National Kidney and Transplant Institute
"If we don't transplant, are we not denying patients of a life-saving procedure?"
- DR. TAN KAI CHAH, Singaporean liver-transplant specialist, on
extending the "stringent" Milan criteria in hepatocellular carcinoma
"In the US and the UK … only kidneys from related donors and the deceased are allowed. We have a lot of flexibility, and now they're looking at our experience."
- MS. KAREN ANN PILAR,
transplant coordinator,
National Kidney and Transplant Institute
"Wala akong kakilalang hemodialysis patient who's still working. But the other patients are amazed that I'm still working."
- EDUARDO LACSON, senior editor, Business Mirror, on the
possibility of having a functional life even during hemodialysis
"Your clinic is tolerated, but not encouraged."
- What the late JAIME CARDINAL SIN, former archbishop of Manila, supposedly
said
when the assisted-reproduction-treatment clinic of the Cardinal Santos
Medical Center opened
"While tuberculosis has declined considerably in some areas of the country, all of us who are concerned about health and development know that the disease still poses a serious and increasing problem in far-flung and hard-to-reach communities."
- DR. MELVIN MAGNO, secretary, Philippine Coalition against Tuberculosis
"The international dimensions of emerging and epidemic-prone diseases are ominous. Given today's universal vulnerability to these threats, better security calls for global solidarity for collective action in the face of shared threat."
- DR. MARGARET CHAN, director general, World Health Organization
"If a UP professor can be pirated by Utah but the natural resources [for doing the research] are available in the Philippines, there's no reason why you can't do the research here. That's why it's important in the management of technology that we preserve our biodiversity."
- DR. FEDERICO MACARANAS, professor, Asian Institute of Management.
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