If we don't write the generic term of the drug, we are supposed to be jailed, fined, and our license confiscated. What kind of a law is that?
--Cardiologist Homobono Calleja, four-term president of the Philippine Medical
Association (PMA), explaining why he opposed the Generics Law.
The world recognizes that this is a major public health challenge and is ready to focus its resources to reduce the risk of a human pandemic. We have plans on paper and we must now test them. Once a pandemic virus appears, it will be too late.
--Lee Jong-wook,
WHO director general, addressing an
international conference on bird flu in Geneva, November.
Paano mo pipigain ang isang taong wala ka nang mapipiga?
--Dr. Modesto Llamas, PMA president, on the impact of
the expanded value-added tax imposed on health services.
There is a far closer relationship between animals and humans in Asia.
--Dr. Peter Horby, WHO medical epidemiologist in Vietnam, on the spread
of animal-borne viruses in the region, quoted by Agence France-Presse.
You don't just learn the technical skills, but it's more the value of hard work and the ability to engage the patient or the client.…It's always about getting into the mind of the consumers and touching their hearts.
--Dr. Rolando B. Hortaleza,
founder of Splash Corporation, on how the
things he learned in medical practice helped him succeed in business.
For every 10,000 substances we test, only one comes out successful in actual medical practice.
--Cardiologist Antonio Dans,
on the results of testing they do at the Asia-Pacific
Center for Evidence-Based Medicine in aid of sound clinical decisions.
I don't think anything ever electrified the world as much as cardiac transplantation did.
--Cardiovascular surgeon Denton Cooley, founder of the Texas Heart Institute, speaking on the 60-year history of cardiovascular surgery at the 17th biennial congress of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons.
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