How Filipino Doctors Can Enhance their Profiles as Some of the “World's Best Physicians” |
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Monday, 08 October 2007 02:38 | |||
Part 10 of "Should We Do Desperate Moves About the Supposed "Desperate Housewives" Slur on RP's Med Schools?" This writer met some of the leaders of Southern California’s Philippine Medical Association (PMASC) and the Philippine Nurses’ Association (PNASC) yesterday at the New Otani Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The occasion was the highly-successful and historic first-ever "Bayanihan sa Amerika" Conference sponsored by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas. The Philippine Consulate General, the Philippine Tourism Office, the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry Office, the Land Bank of the Philippines, SMART Communications, Inc., and the Asian Eye Institute co-sponsored the conference. In general, the Filipino-American physicians and nurses at the "Bayanihan" conference concurred with our position that the "Desperate Housewives" brouhaha does not call for desperate measures such as boycott of the TV network or picketing of its studios, or worse, filing civil cases that the courts of law would probably reject as nuisance suits. What our Fil-Am physician-friends need is a well-orchestrated and modestly-funded public-relations’ (PR) campaign to remind American society of their positive contributions to the United States. For instance, the PR blitz could highlight that the chief physician at the White House during President Bill Clinton’s term was a Filipino-American doctor. What is good for the American President obviously is good also for the average American patients. The PR campaign should highlight also the fact that some Filipino-American physicians are faculty members of prestigious American medical schools such as the University of Southern California. We can also tell the public that there were Filipino-American physicians, all products of Philippine medical schools, who have retired honorably from the United States military medical corps. We can document the responsible positions being held by Filipino-American physicians in distinguished American medical centers as chief of surgery, etc., and etc. In fact, the PR campaign can even highlight that the only general hospital in St. Thomas at the U.S. Virgin Islands boasts of several Filipino physicians as heads of its OB-Gynecology and Pediatrics departments. In short, what the Filipino-American medical practitioners must do is simply to enhance their track records of excellent public service by publicizing their achievements and accolades received. Because when our Filipino physicians, nurses and other medical practitioners look good, our community also looks good, if not better. And we all feel good and proud of our positive contributions to the United States and other foreign countries. Here is an example of an achievement of a distinguished Filipino-American physician in San Diego, California. Our then online magazine, the www.yimby.com, published in October 2000, the historic feat of Maria Reyes Mason, MD. (Editor’s Note: She is not related to this writer.) QUOTE. First Filipino to Head American Cancer Society in California By Romeo P. Marquez
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