She was weary and teary-eyed. Her gray hair tied to a lose bun, her shoulders were drooped and her entire body screamed of fatigue and despair. She got up slowly from the chair in front of me and as she was leaving the room, I wondered how this could happen to her. Rosa is a mother whose young adult son is suffering from a...
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Honesty, truthfulness and patient autonomy were instilled to us by our medical education. When I was a younger oncologist, I was very passionate about needing to tell everything about the condition to the patient and their relatives. I tell them that it is my job and responsibility to be straightforward and honest no matter how...
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I’ve heard stories from people telling me how somebody they know, who is undergoing chemotherapy, kept on vomiting after the chemotherapy was given. As an oncologist, I do not understand why these patients had to go through such an ordeal. Vomiting is an adverse effect of many chemotherapy drugs, but not all. It is very...
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As I was speaking to a friend who was pre-diabetic, I advised him to comply with the medicine prescribed by his physician and start changing his diet and start exercising regularly. When he heard about the lifestyle change, he quickly replied that he would rather take the medicine. He said: “May gamot naman” (“There is a...
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Health supplements are so in today. We see them everywhere from the grocery shelves to the pharmacies, on all forms of media, on the internet and even the person sitting beside you in the bus trying to sell you a some form of health drink or pill. It is very rare for me not to receive a question from patients about them every time I...
read moreMy Dilemna I have a personal bias towards telling…..telling the patient of the truth about his diagnosis. This is what I was taught in school. Initially, I went around in circles when talking to patients that they sometimes perhaps wondered what I was really saying. But practice makes perfect. I learned the skill. Got rid...
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