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The Checklist Manifesto:  How to get things right. By Atul Gawande, surgeon and MD Picador Books, 2009 I was hospitalized for weeks with what was called long COVID-19 in 2021 and over that four-week stay, every day, multiple times, nurses administering medicines, lab technicians drawing blood, dialysis nurses hooking me up would ask me the

READING FINDS Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues

by Dr. Martin Blaser (Oneworld Books, 2014). ~ ~ ~ ~ “We live in the Age of Bacteria (as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, until the world ends)…” ~ Stephen Jay Gould(Cambridge, MA, 1993) ~ ~ ~ ~ Wading through that book candy sale called the “Big Bad Wolf”,

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A Simple Solution: Teaching Millions to Treat Diarrhoea at Home  By A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury & Richard A, Cash University Press Ltd, 1996 In November 1970, one of the worst cyclones hit what was then East Pakistan flooding the delta that covers a third of the country, killing half a million people.  West Pakistan, where

MANAGING UNCERTAINTY: Using the SARS experience to inform us on how to deal with COVID-19.

A public forum with:Dr. Manuel DayritFormer Dean, Ateneo School of Medicine & Public Health; Former Secretary, Department of Health and Dr. Rontgene SolanteChairman, Adult Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, San Lazaro Hospital February 19, 2020Asian Institute of Management(Executive Master in Disaster Management & Crisis Management; Master in Development Management) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ With

The Wuhan Coronavirus (2020) and Remembering SARS (2003)

J. M. Luz Commentary The Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that has struck that Chinese city of 11 million threatens to be the world’s next pandemic. First recognized and reported in late 2019, the epicenter of the coronavirus has been traced to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan.  There, common meat and fish products that many