No Excuses

Got this from Nike Tennis Twitter page after I retweeted the photo that I liked best from their No Excuses campaign for this year's US Open.

@sugar_baroness made #NoExcuses in NYC. Check out your moment on the 34th St. billboard. pic.twitter.com/ynyNR10CmK

— Nike Tennis (@NikeTennis) September 20, 2013

This is a pretty good campaign, just in time for my slacking, in connection to reviewing for the board exams. I procrastinate so many times that I actually never get anything done. 

I can do this. I will finish that Physiology BRS book.

No excuses. :)

Laway Makes The World Go Round

When there's a major hoopla, there would be idiots who would be feasting on that certain issue. Give morons a smartphone or a computer with an internet connection, then you'll have an instant source of entertainment or a headache. As the level of stupidity increases, I get more ambivalent. That is, I don't know whether to get annoyed or feel sorry for that person because he or she is such an imbecile. Sometimes I just dismiss it with a good laugh and briefly wonder how can a person with that level of narrow-mindedness exist.

Take this example from this viral photo from Facebook posted by Jun Dizon. 

Saan ka ba nagpapatingin Koya, sa magtatawas? Yung tipong papalawayan mo yung tiyan mo para di ka mabales? Wala ka naman sigurong napuntahan na doktor na nagrekomenda ng laway bilang gamot. Kahit ako, never pa akong inutusan ng mga residente na magreseta ng laway.

I am astounded by the audacity of this person to say such things. "Laway lang puhunan"? How can you say that doctors are the leading tax evaders? Please prove your point by showing 20 appraised journals with meta-analysis of the facts presented. I wanted to rant to prove my point but I'm sure Koya wouldn't get it anyway.

Para sa akin, ang shunga mo Koya dahil ang tingin mo laway ang nagpapatakbo ng mundo namin sa ospital. At dahil dyan eto ang rating ko sa kashungahan mo:

INFINITE FACEPALM!!!

Akala mo ang talino ko eh, no? Haha.

Ang Carinderia Ni Doc KC

Since the BIR's new directive drew flak from netizens and the involved professionals, I decided to protest through poking fun at it by making a list:

Kasi naman magmumukhang carinderia ang mga clinic pag natuloy ang gusto nilang mangyari. Carinderiang may menu ang kalalabasan kung ililista ko lahat. Kaya ayan tinuloy ko na, nilagyan ko na rin ng pagkain para naman di nakakahiya sa kanila. Haha. DAWORST.

Oozing With Vacuous Ideas

As I was lurking online last night, after deciding that staring aimlessly at my Anatomy book is not studying, I came across numerous posts regarding the BIR's directive that professionals should post in their offices the rates that they charge their clients. 

That, by far, has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. No, probably in my lifetime. 

Speaking as a future physician, I really cannot hide my disgust for this directive because I felt that it belittles medicine as a profession. Ever since I went to med school and went on to internship, I experienced a lot of things that a lot of people do not see. These are the years of sacrifices and hardships that the physician and their families had to go through in order to care for the sick. Giving up a part of your life for the sake of others is not easy but we opted to do it to serve the people. And now the smart aleck BIR comes up with a a bright idea that equates the profession as a money-making scheme.

It's true that there is a so-called "business side of medicine". Hey, we also need to earn money to live but we don't do it all the time. I know of the noble deeds of my mentors and seniors who do not charge financially incapable patients. I don't need to expound on that but I'm sure you've heard of such stories already. A simple "thank you" is enough for them and it makes them feel like they've been paid a million dollars.

That makes the practice of medicine worth it and it cannot be equated to any amount of monetary value.

I do not approve of this directive because his move is plainly UNETHICAL and it DEVALUES THE NOBILITY of the profession. Let me check it out with the Philippine Medical Association's Code of Ethics so I can prove my point about this directive being unethical:

 Exhibit A: Article III Section 4

So you see, only the name, field of specialty, office hours or the office or residential address may be posted. I do not see a SERVICE PRICE LIST written in there and in the other parts of the Code as well. To drive my point home about physicians giving out their services for free and why some fees seem to be higher than that of the other cases, I give you:

Exhibit B: Article II Section 7

Funny how this is imposed at the same time that questionable allocation of revenues is the current national issue. So now I'm thinking about how would the taxes that I'm going to pay in the future be used?

Sentimental Value

Ever since I lost my stuff to those fucktards a few weeks ago, I can't help but feel sad because all of the stuff they took are of value. As you might have known or read a few posts back, I don't wallow on the monetary value of my stuff but on the sentimental value of it because all are gifts from my parents and friends. At this point, I don't want to gag at my own sentimentality but I would like to go to the reasons behind that. What was most painful was the loss of my watch that was given to me by my Tito Nonoy when I was in 6th grade and my Samsung Galaxy Tablet which was given to me by my dad for my 26th birthday.

You might say that I shouldn't worry about the material possessions I lost because at least we weren't hurt. Yes, I'm happy that no one was hurt but you see, I have reasons for mulling over the loss of my stuff. First off, I am not the type to ask my parents for seriously expensive stuff unless I really need it or deserve it. I usually wait for an occasion so I can ask for it or I just wait for it to be given to me if my parents also think as I do. So just imagine my joy when it's given to me. Not only that, we were raised by our parents wherein we should work hard in order to gain something and that not everything should be given in a whim. For example, something would be given if we follow the condition that we would get good grades at school. Receiving stuff out of hard work is really bittersweet. Lastly, if an object was given to me out of sheer kindness and generosity of the giver, I really treasure that because it makes me feel that someone actually cares. Haha. Mababaw lang naman ang kaligayahan ko, basta naalala mo ako kahit gaano pa kamura yan, binibigyan ko yan ng halaga.

For the record, I am not materialistic. I am just a very sentimental young woman. Kbye.