Republic Act No. 10932 is explicit in its mandate that in emergency or serious cases, it shall be unlawful for a medical practitioner of a hospital or medical clinic “to request, solicit, demand or accept any deposit or any other form of advance payment as a prerequisite for administering basic emergency care to any patient, confinement or medical treatment of a patient in such hospital or medical clinic or to refuse to administer medical treatment and support.

Anxiety and depression, two of the most common affective disorders in cancer patients can affect one’s compliance to treatment leading to poorer outcomes. Therefore, means of determining the psychological wellness of cancer patients through screening tools for anxiety and depression are an integral part of their management. The objectives of this study was to measure the prevalence of anxiety and depression among cancer patients seen in an outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital using the HADS-P. and assess the impact of the following variables on symptoms of anxiety and depression: demographic, socio-economic, biological and health/clinical parameters.

Although elevated glucose levels are associated with adverse outcomes in the critically ill, HbA1c-based adjusted glycemic variables have not been extensively utilized as a tool to evaluate patients in the acute critical condition. This study aims to determine whether glycemic gap can predict adverse outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes diagnosed with COVID-19.

COVID-19 is a new, rapidly emerging zoonotic infectious disease. Addressing the cytokine storm and coagulopathy associated with this disease can minimize its severity and complications. Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) can be potentially used to remove these deleterious cytokines and procoagulant proteins. This study aims to assess the effectiveness and safety of TPE as an adjunctive treatment for COVID-19 patients.

Studies show that healthcare workers from previous pandemics have experienced high levels of stress, anxiety with negative psychological impacts. This paper aims to identify factors affecting mental health outcomes of healthcare workers during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the most accurate and cost-effective method to evaluate thyroid nodule for possible malignancy. However, an adequate specimen is required for proper examination by a pathologist. Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE), a service typically provided by pathologists, is the real-time evaluation for adequacy of FNAB smears which can help improve adequacy rates by allowing the submission of additional thyroid samples when the submitted samples are inadequate. This study aims to investigate if ROSE done by trained Endocrinologists can improve specimen adequacy in our patients.

This study aimed to determine the correlation between admitting hyperglycemia and hospital outcome, on the length of hospital stay and mortality on patients who underwent PCI.

Fibromyalgia is a difficult-to-treat chronic musculoskeletal pain and tenderness syndrome. It is considered due to augmented pain processing in central nervous system. Interest in antiepileptic drugs, included pregabalin, for treatment of fibromyalgia is currently growing. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of pregabalin for fibromyalgia.

This is a case of a diagnostic dilemma of an immunocompetent 55-year-old male presenting with odynophagia, dysphagia and hoarseness of voice that was initially managed as a case of fungal laryngitis due to history of prolonged use of dexamethasone and findings of leukoplakia in laryngoscopy.

Metastasis to scapula is an infrequent presentation and skeletal muscle metastasis is extremely rare. We present a case of metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma that manifested as a large scapular mass on the right shoulder of a 65-year-old female patient.

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute monophasic paralyzing illness that typically occurs after gastroenteritis and respiratory tract infection. Antecedent surgical procedures are less recognized trigger of GBS. We report a case of demyelinating variety of GBS that developed after appendectomy.

Androgen insensitivity syndrome is an X-linked recessive condition resulting in a failure of normal masculinization of the external genitalia in a chromosomally male individual. We describe two phenotypically female siblings aged 27 and 18 years, who presented with primary amenorrhea.

COVID 19 infection has taken millions of lives to date but knowledge regarding its occurrence is still new and evolving. Among the consistent data gathered over the past few months since it was declared as a pandemic by the WHO is that patients with underlying comorbidities, notably diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obesity have worse clinical course and outcomes. The time frame when this study was conducted was during the period when the Philippines experienced the so-called “first wave” of the coronavirus in the local setting. This was also the time when any established drug therapy for COVID-19 infection was yet to be supported by any randomized controlled trials.