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Lack of RP doctors, facilities still a problem — board topnotcher

08/22/08

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By Janie Octia
INQUIRER.net

QUEZON City, Philippines – Medical board exam topnotcher Marlon Garcia always wanted to become a doctor.

“I learned to love the profession as I was studying and I got to interact with the patients,” said the 26-year-old Garcia who finds the Anatomy and Surgery part of the board exam the hardest.

Watch this video interview with Garcia:

In an interview with INQUIRER.net, Garcia said the country suffers from the unequal distribution of qualified doctors and the lack of adequate facilities to perform medical procedures.

He said most of the doctors are located in the city while far-flung provinces are in dire need of more doctors.

“Ang ratio ng pasyente sa doktor is 1:50 o 100, so I guess we need to improve the manpower and facilities,” he said.

Garcia plans to take the United States Medical Licensing Examination and specialize in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.

Though planning to practice abroad, he believes that Filipino doctors have an edge over other nationalities when it comes to doctor-patient relationship as Filipinos are more compassionate and personal.

“The best thing about being a doctor is that you have the privilege is to help those who need you the most and those who are suffering from diseases. I guess every aspect of the human life not just sickness but the totality of a person,” Garcia said.

Garcia has not slept for the last two days waiting for the results until he got a call informing him he topped the board exam with a score of 88.75 percent.

A graduate of Bachelor of Science in Biology at the De La Salle University Manila and Doctor of Medicine at the Far Eastern University-Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, Garcia graduated cum laude.

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25 Responses to “Lack of RP doctors, facilities still a problem — board topnotcher”

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    sige nga... Says:
    July 17th, 2009 at 1:52 am

    to all the medical professionals who gave their comments here, who among you are currently practicing in the most remote areas of the Philippines, the real places in dire need of doctors and nurses and plan to stay? I bet wala…. kasi nakakapag Internet p kayo ngayon. so what if you decide to stay and practice in the country, it doesn’t count if you are in the urban areas anyway. magpakatotoo kayo.

  2. 24
    Pinoy Says:
    July 17th, 2009 at 12:52 am

    …you are all so judgemental of Dr. Garcia. ….self-righteous. if you believe you are doing the right thing… shut up and just do it. inspire people, and do not be the first one to hurl rocks at those whom you deem wrong.

  3. 23
    Ephraim Malag, M.D. Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    I would like like to comment on one particular statement of Janie Octia about
    Dr. Garcia as follows: “he (Dr. Garcia) believes that Filipino doctors have an edge over other nationalities it it comes to Dr.-patient relationship as Filipinos are more compassionate and personal.”

    I am a Filipino doctor who practied my medical profession in the Philippines, Africa and South America for almost 4 decades and I have more than praise on the professional behaviour, compassion and personal relationship of fellow doctors in these countries to their patients.

    Dr. Garcia’s statement is irresponsible. A neophyte doctor who have not even gone out of the country to practice his profession can demean his colleagues in other countries! I met a lot of foreign doctors and worked with them and they were just like any other doctors devouted and compassinate as we are in the Philippines or maybe even more!

    I worked first as a volunteer under the MARIA (Medical Aid to Rurial Indigent Areas) project of the Philippine Medical
    Association for a couple of years in the hinterlands of Basilan and Bukidnon then continued my private practice in a rural area in Davao before going abroad to seek for a greener pasture. That was the kind of spirit I had when I was a young doctor.

    I advise Dr. Garcia to be more prudent and transparent. Factual statement is the norm in the medical profession.

  4. 22
    lisa Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    I’m a nurse and just listening to this guy talk tells me he’s got a thick head not good enough to understand real clinical life. I bet all he did was bury his head onto those “voluminous” medical books to top the exam. If I call him for a real life situation he won’t be able to correlate things. He can’t even see the simplest solution to the Philippine problem which he just mentioned. He doesn’t even know what professional medical practice meanss. “US medical doctors are more profesional”????????Dr, did I just hear you say that?You’ve watched too much House, ER etc.

  5. 21
    Einna Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 2:39 am

    What a waste of time to interview Dr. Garcia. He is the problem yet he has the nerve to say out loud that he will come here in the US and take the US Med Licensing Exam? What happened during the course of this interview, can’t he hear himself during the interview? I don’t think he knows what he was talking about… He knows he is part of the solution but I believe he wants to be a part of the problem…

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