Joey M.D.

One serving of alcohol in the form of red wine is fine, even healthy.  I repeat, in moderation.  According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, drinking in moderation is defined as having no more than 1 drink per day for women and no more than 2 drinks per day for men. This [...]

Tonight, we’ll be going to my grandma’s house for our traditional New Year’s Eve dinner.
I am so glad I am no longer a clerk, an intern or a resident, and that my specialty has very few emergencies, which means that I am neither on duty or on call tonight.
Aside from the fact that I will [...]

Sometimes I feel a little bit frustrated that my medical license is not really borderless.  My prescription would not really be recognized outside my own country.  While I understand this because it’s true that I am only licensed in my own country and not outside its borders, it does create a lot of inconveniences for [...]

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The first confirmed case of H1N1 (Influenza A) in the Philippines was just confirmed last night.  See new articles here and here.  It happened with a 10 year old female who arrived from the United States with her parents.
I think that [...]

I am Tsinay.  While I am of pure Chinese blood, having 2 immigrants as parents, I am born and raised in the Philippines.  As such, I am neither fully Chinese nor fully Filipino.  I am fluent in Filipino, English and 2 Chinese dialects (Fukien and Mandarin).
I am a doctor, and I love what I do.  [...]

In Alexandra Drane’s words, we need to “start talking. Engage With Grace: The One Slide Project was designed with one simple goal: to help get the conversation about end of life experience started. The idea is simple: Create a tool to help get people talking. One Slide, with just five questions on it. Five questions [...]

More than anything else, being a mom is my greatest achievement. Being a parent is the biggest responsibility to be entrusted to me, and I’m so glad that the Lord has chosen me to become mom to Ethan and soon-to-be mom to our second baby.
Becoming a doctor comes a very close second though. [...]

My husband and I are wary of parking our cars next to a dilapidated looking car, especially one with several dents and bumps, badly in need of a trip to a car repair shop.  Our thinking is that the driver of that car does not seem to be a careful person, hence the dents.  Bad [...]