by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B “The emblem of the PHI is not a simple circle; rays extend out. That is what a PHI should be about – extending yourself to others, effecting change to make things better.” Each element in our fraternity’s insignia represents principles which we commit ourselves to. For Dr. Vicente Belizario…
by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B It takes an extraordinary man to make the decision to leave a lucrative practice and a comfortable life for himself and his family to journey back to a nation he had left many years before, to embark on a campaign for a senate seat in an electoral system so…
by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B “Life still is a challenge as long as medicine is not an exact science.” You will be hard-pressed to find a doctor-researcher as prolific as Dr. Ramon Fabella Abarquez Jr. His career spanding six decades has yielded many of the seminal papers in cardiology over the years – pioneering works…
by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B During the PHI International Dinner of 2008, all but one of the brods from PGH-TCVS were in attendance. The onlookers knew instinctively that this impressive near-perfect show had much to do with the surgery consultants’ senior brod, JoeGon. Self-admittedly the “town crier”, JoeGon has been relentless in getting alumni brods to…
by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B Briefly describe your experiences as a UP medicine student. I was a renegade, still am. When Brod Ting Tiongco assumed editorship of the college’s student publication back during his clerkship year, he changed the name of the newsletter into its current name (UP Medics) and he did not just report…