No more bloating, cramping, and irritability every month.  No more migraines every period. No more birth control pills.  No more worries about diapers, teenage children, and no more worries about getting pregnant, especially during these uncertain times. No more menstruation.  Yes, menopause is the time when another door opens. It is the time when we can pursue what has been stalled during our time of raising children, where we were always laid in with guilt when work interferes with the time we want to spend with our children. It is a time when we realize our wants and are ..read more

Filipinos are known to be a proud and resilient race. We are highly regarded as hospitable, hardworking, compassionate, and caring. And we are deeply faithful and have strong family ties.  Today, the Philippines continues to be the primary source of professional nurses to the US and other countries. Due to the pandemic, the healthcare industry is the most vulnerable when it comes to the virus since they care for and are in direct contact with COVID-19 patients.  In September 2020, the largest nursing union in the US found that 67 out of 213 registered nurses who died of COVID-19 are ..read more

We are back at it again for the second part of our COVID-19 Q&A and Updates series. And we’re bringing you more information and updates on the COVID-19 virus that has been our foe for more than a year now. Some of you may still have questions like what are the vaccines available for COVID-19? How vaccines are useful to prevent illnesses? Are these vaccines really safe and effective? And in what way can it protect our body from the virus?  In the last episode, we talked about the questions about the vaccine COVID-19, some concerns and overall risks and benefits of the vaccine as well a ..read more

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15-19-year-olds all over the world and close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year. During this pandemic, everyone's psychological and emotional state have been adversely affected. And every day, even for physicians and medical students, we try to cope with it despite the triggered wave of mental health issues from depression, isolation or just the general stress resulting from COVID-19.  Losing someone very close to our heart is so difficult for us. It causes us so much stress, pain and sorrow that we can’t explain. And losing t ..read more

I hope my experience as a physician would help you realize how important life is, how important service to others is, and how important is taking care of yourself. Please continue the public health measures, have the vaccine, and continue, continue servicing others.  - Dr. Jette Gabiola - This episode hits too close to home. A doctor finding herself at death’s door.  COVID-19 has exposed us to the most profound losses, may it be jobs, opportunities, dreams, and most painfully, losing loved ones: family members and friends. The pandemic has taught us a lot of things in the past months ..read more

Medical Education has been impacted by Covid-19.  Hands-on medicine has been largely switched to online where physical examination has been severely restricted.  Doctors had to be innovative in eliciting physical findings with the help of the patients when doing telemedicine.  Decisions are made with very limited data. Conveying compassion, empathy and nonverbal cues when clinicians’ faces are covered by masks and face shields is a major challenge to the doctor-patient encounter.  Students have been so patient and flexible as they struggle to learn the art and science of cl ..read more

The next two episodes will explore what we hear from our students and parents. What are they saying? What are we learning about ourselves, our resilience, and our coping mechanisms? Learning is truly a lifelong process. Covid 19 has changed the landscape of education in so many ways. This podcast will showcase our children's resilience and how  parents stepped up to the plate to help support their children and keep them engaged while recalibrating and restructuring their own schedules. It highlights how parents keep their children engaged and focused and how they function effectively as t ..read more

This podcast underscores the importance of epidemiology of COVID 19 and the importance of public measures to help mitigate the spread and transmission of the disease until we have effective treatments and vaccines available. About the Host: Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here. About ABC's for Global Health: ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and und ..read more

How we adapt to this unprecedented crisis? How mobilizing not only our inner strengths but the support of the people around us can help us get through this pandemic in one piece. Memorable Quote: We can predict the incidence of Covid 19 by people's Zipcode. - Dr. Kirsti Weng Have patience and kindness. We are resilient...the strength in us will get us through this. - Dr. Kirsti Weng About the Guest: Dr. Kirsti Weng, a champion of the underserved will highlight how an institution like Stanford mobilized its resources to create drive-through tents for COVID test ..read more

The Medicine for Good Podcast, hosted by Dr. Julieta Gabiola, gives a human face to medical science and explores the lives of clinicians and the people they serve and touch. It will help translate scientific and technological discoveries and innovations into what really matters, expanding our understanding of medical philanthropy, volunteerism, and altruism. In episode 2, we will highlight how COVID-19 changed the way we practice medicine and how a team-based approach to care is so vital to decrease the transmission of the virus in both the hospital and out-patient settings. It will ..read more