Different kinds of hospitals have different strengths. General hospitals, as the term implies, handle all types of medical and surgical treatment, while specialized hospitals focus on specific illnesses and procedures. Community hospitals, which may have anywhere from 50 to 300 beds, are private, nonprofit, and...
This topic is meant to provoke healthy speculations. Which is a mental exercise in truth-seeking. We are therefore requested not to jump into conclusions without actual knowledge of the truth supported by cold evidence. Our main purpose is to speculate on the bombings as political statement....
WE go through life in stages. We start as a fertilized egg in our mother’s womb. Then we develop into a fetus. We are born, we are infants, a toddler, a schoolkid, an...
When the late Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino posed the rhetorical question whether the Filipinos were worth dying for, no one for a moment thought at that time that he was predicting his own assassination that eventually led to the downfall of martial law President Ferdinand...
The 1983 Code of Canon Law does not define BEC, nor does it contain a provision that pertains to it directly. Nonetheless, we can find an authoritative description from the 1990 encylical of Blessed John Paul II that says, the basic ecclesial communities are «groups...
Surely there is need for humility and patience as we strive to do God’s will in the midst of this changing world of ours with all the different characteristics of the people we meet or deal with. What more support and consideration do we...
Bag-o lang nato nasaksihan ang SONA sa atong Presidente Noynoy Aquino niadtong miaging bulan sa Hulyo. Matud pa niya, gikalipay daw niya karon nga Pilipino siya. Nindot kuno karon bation ang garbo sa pagka Pilipino tungod sa mga kabag-ohan nga nagakahitabo sa katawhan, sa...
Sa dugay nang panahon, Cub Scout pa ko, nakadunggog nako sa binuang nga mga buhat labot niining Congressional Pork Barrel. Nagkausab-usab na ang ngalan nga gigamit sa lainlaing pamunoan sa panggamhanan, apan mao ra gihapon ang nagakahitabong dinagkong pag-usik ug pagkawat sa pundo sa kaggamhanan,...
Parents have the right and responsibility to make all health decisions on behalf of their minor children. Doctor cannot treat a child without parent’s informed consent except in an emergency. In certain emergencies, parents have the right to stay with their child, whether in the...
As a beginner in learning how to use the iPad and the blackberry mobile phone, I stumbled on news reports in English about the just-concluded World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reading these reports makes me concerned about the possible misinterpretation and misuse...
