Seven Days into the new year and I’m sitting down in my office at 10:30 pm, scrolling through Facebook on my phone. It’s really interesting to see people talk about their new year resolutions, the things that they look forward to in 2021, how they all optimistically think that everyone will thrive in the year ahead and things could not get … Read More
I have a habit of wrapping up each year and giving it well-deserved closure. I usually spend a bit of time gathering my thoughts on a few moments that I’m particularly proud of and also ones that I’m not particularly so. This has become a ritual of mine for the past 5 years and this year is no different. The … Read More
Alcohol, to many, is a universal representation of having a good time. The problem is that once we have a taste of a good life, our brain will almost always long for it. The aroma and taste that comes with a fine glass of red can become an experience that one would certainly relish. For some, perhaps such experience is … Read More
There is no doubt that we all know life is full of suffering. One of the hardest things we all have to bear in life is the concept of “loss”. Sooner or later, we all will have to bear some form of loss. Whether it’s losing our loved ones, losing our health, or losing materialistic things, we are in a … Read More
Strangely enough, people can be quite stubborn when their beliefs and emotions clash with the truth. How many of you have tried to convince someone you love to seek medication attention when they need support and help from a health professional? It’s something that I have to deal with on a daily basis at work – either in helping family … Read More
Strangely enough, people can thrive in the face of death. Being a pharmacist and have a foot in palliative care, I’ve seen many deaths and it is not an easy job. So, I have extreme admiration for palliative nurses. That’s a hard job to be doing because you are caring for patients that are in their last days or hours … Read More
When a threat emerges just like COVID-19, healthcare systems around the world are usually the first to suffer and are left vulnerable when there is not a robust population health protocol in place to handle the potential catastrophe it may create. When tens of thousands of people are infected with COVID-19 and thousands are dying from it every day; it … Read More
In the midst of a global pandemic, the Pfizer press release announcement on Tuesday could not come at a better time. They declared positive interim results from the Phase 3 human clinical trials of their COVID-19 vaccine. According to Pfizer, preliminary data suggested their COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective at protecting people from the infection compared to people … Read More
I was watching the US election on TV Wednesday night and to be perfectly honest, it’s much more entertaining than the NZ ones we had a few weeks ago. As I was listening to the commentaries, one of the presenters from CBS news said the American people had to decide between Trump or Biden and at the moment the nation seems … Read More
What makes the coronavirus so hard to contain since it reached a global pandemic stage is because it is not visible to our naked eye. All we can see is its effect; the symptoms, the spread, and the deaths. One of the questions that many of us might be pondering ever since our first lockdown is how can we plan … Read More
