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Some Days You Can’t Save Them All

Ronnie E. Baticulon
4.66/5 (625 ratings)
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"In the event of an error, the only thing a writer loses is a chunk of swollen ego. But a physician’s incorrect diagnosis will always be a matter of life and death. Dr. Baticulon’s dispatches from the country’s leading public hospital are told in language that requires no further acrobatics. How do you tell a mother that the smiling ten-year-old boy in her arms will not survive the following week? How do you tell a little girl she’ll never be able to go home to play because her parents can’t afford P54,000 for her surgery? How do you live with yourself after breaking a promise to save an eight-year-old boy’s life? Like the trenches of war zones, the operating room is the frontline of life’s most difficult questions. Here are a neurosurgeon’s gripping ruminations on hope and loss."
—Lourd De Veyra

"In Medicine, as it is in life, there are no easy answers to the fundamental questions of why we get sick and die. These questions are always messy in the context of structural poverty in the Philippine society and the inadequacy of public health services. And this is why we need stories like these. This is a commendable first book."
—Marjorie Evasco

"Ronnie Baticulon follows in the footsteps of many other physicians for whom the task of understanding and healing humanity did not stop at the clinic or the operating room. They used words and language not only for their patients but also for themselves—a long and distinguished line from Rabelais, Chekhov, and Maugham to Michael Crichton, Richard Selzer, Oliver Sacks, and of course our own Jose Rizal and Arturo Rotor. Dr. Baticulon is a worthy addition to that tradition."
—Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
192 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
The University of the Philippines Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
9715429092
ISBN13:
9789715429092
kindle Asin:
9715429092

Some Days You Can’t Save Them All

Ronnie E. Baticulon
4.66/5 (625 ratings)
Read Download
"In the event of an error, the only thing a writer loses is a chunk of swollen ego. But a physician’s incorrect diagnosis will always be a matter of life and death. Dr. Baticulon’s dispatches from the country’s leading public hospital are told in language that requires no further acrobatics. How do you tell a mother that the smiling ten-year-old boy in her arms will not survive the following week? How do you tell a little girl she’ll never be able to go home to play because her parents can’t afford P54,000 for her surgery? How do you live with yourself after breaking a promise to save an eight-year-old boy’s life? Like the trenches of war zones, the operating room is the frontline of life’s most difficult questions. Here are a neurosurgeon’s gripping ruminations on hope and loss."
—Lourd De Veyra

"In Medicine, as it is in life, there are no easy answers to the fundamental questions of why we get sick and die. These questions are always messy in the context of structural poverty in the Philippine society and the inadequacy of public health services. And this is why we need stories like these. This is a commendable first book."
—Marjorie Evasco

"Ronnie Baticulon follows in the footsteps of many other physicians for whom the task of understanding and healing humanity did not stop at the clinic or the operating room. They used words and language not only for their patients but also for themselves—a long and distinguished line from Rabelais, Chekhov, and Maugham to Michael Crichton, Richard Selzer, Oliver Sacks, and of course our own Jose Rizal and Arturo Rotor. Dr. Baticulon is a worthy addition to that tradition."
—Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
192 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
The University of the Philippines Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
9715429092
ISBN13:
9789715429092
kindle Asin:
9715429092

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