Well, actually not a babble. This is my reflection paper after my two-week rotation in community medicine during my third year in med school. When the community medicine rotation is nearing its end, I thought to myself that it ought to be longer. The amount of learning and realization that one acquires as he or she goes through the rotation is huge ( Read more... )

Let me tell you the story of a 54 year old woman whose name cannot be mentioned, but allow me to address her here as FG.

In the outskirts of Balindong, one of the municipalities in the 2nd District of Lanao del Sur, one may find her humble home-a small hut housing her and her 7 grandchildren; youngest of them is a 2 year old girl, and the eldest ( Read more... )

 
Some thoughts have piled up over the weeks and they’re all over the place, and I don’t know how to organize them at this moment. I’ll just write, and please bear with me if you ever want to continue reading this, and find out later on that it’s all over the place too - and you may have just wasted your time reading through this.

Anyway. I warned ( Read more... )

Right now as I am making this entry, people in my area, that is, Metro Manila and its neighboring provinces are confounded by the recent disaster that hit Metro Manila and some provinces of Luzon, due to the heavy flooding that occurred in just a span of 6 hours yesterday. It was really baffling, especially to me who is not used to heavy flooding. ( Read more... )