Dr. Gem Marq Mutia - Adult Medicine

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

Don't be that person.

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09/03/2026

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

💚 Join Us in Celebrating World Kidney Day! 💚

In line with the 20th Year of World Kidney Day, the Perpetual Help Medical Center – Las Piñas invites you to a special online health talk focused on kidney health and awareness.

🗓 March 12, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM – 12:00 NN
📍 Via Zoom

Learn valuable insights from Dr. Charry De Jesus, Adult Nephrologist, as we discuss the importance of protecting and maintaining healthy kidneys.

📲 Scan the QR Code to join the session.

Let’s raise awareness and take steps toward better kidney health for everyone.

08/03/2026

On March 7 scientists and advocates are set to take to the streets in support of science—the nationwide demonstration will mark the second Stand Up for Science rally since U.S. president Donald Trump took office in 2025.

On Saturday Stand Up for Science is leading demonstrations in 25 locations, including Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Albuquerque; smaller events will take place in about 25 additional cities. There will also be a virtual rally.

“Last year we were warning people,” says Colette Delawalla, founder and CEO of the eponymous nonprofit that has organized the rallies. “We were concerned about politicization of science, we were concerned about political interference and censorship, we were concerned about vaccines and public health,” says Delawalla, who is also a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Emory University. “Pretty much everything that we warned about has happened, which is extraordinarily unfortunate.” http://spklr.io/6041EEwYW

✍: Meghan Bartels
📸: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

08/03/2026

07/03/2026

ALT TEXT: a two panel meme, with both panels using the same image, a young patient and a female doctor. In the top panel the young patient says:

Both vaccinated and unvaccinated can get sick.

In the bottom panel the doctor replies:

Both Serena Williams and I can play tennis.

06/03/2026

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‘Bioethicists say ethics is “central to a physician’s identity”, and that ethics is about compassion, empathy and virtue. But most doctors think quite differently. They think being a doctor is first and foremost a burden because the doctor’s moral sense and civilised sentiments are always playing defence against the savagery of physical existence.’

A powerful and confronting read, the anaesthesiologist and writer Ronald W Dworkin’s latest Aeon Essay once more delves into the physical realities of medical practice. This time, Dworkin aims squarely at bioethics: a discipline mired in theory that has little to say to doctors like him making real-world decisions.

Where bioethics mostly sees a problem that can be resolved with more staffing and better resourcing, Dworkin diagnoses a different root cause for much of the moral suffering of doctors: the violent nature of so much that falls under the label ‘care’.

Telling the story of a clinically challenging case, Dworkin describes the moral injuries inflicted on him by the reality of his patient’s condition – such as having to intubate his patient awake, or weighing up inflicting permanent blindness against offering a reprieve from terrible pain. As these moral quandaries stack up in the split-second environment of the surgery, Dworkin stresses the ultimate uselessness of abstract bioethical notions, instead relying on his own internal principles, honed over decades of practice.

Combining vivid storytelling, immense professional expertise and a critical philosophical lens, this Essay is at once challenging and eye-opening. https://aeon.co/essays/why-bioethics-cannot-help-doctors-in-actual-medical-practice

For more of Dworkin’s rare, honest insights into the operating room, read his previous two Essays on Aeon.

06/03/2026

06/03/2026

Turns out, many won’t live long enough to collect their P100,000 centenarian gift.

06/03/2026

The research, led by Michael Alosco at Boston University’s CTE Center, tracked cognitive and neuropsychiatric outcomes across 3,970 former players aged 40 and older. It is one of the largest studies to date that includes men who played at every level, from youth leagues through to the professional ranks. And the pattern it found was consistent, almost unsettlingly so: the more years a man spent playing football, and the higher the level he reached, the worse he tended to score on tests of memory, executive function, and mood.

If you’d like to know more: https://scienceblog.com/more-years-of-u-s-football-linked-to-worse-cognitive-psychiatric-outcomes-in-later-life/?