‘Ikaw na bahala’: Why patients must own their health
The patients who fare best — and I have seen this repeatedly — are not always the wealthiest or the most educated. They are the ones who participate.
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read
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The patients who fare best — and I have seen this repeatedly — are not always the wealthiest or the most educated. They are the ones who participate.
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read
Perhaps that is what Valentine’s Day offers doctors, after all: not a reminder of what we miss, but a moment to notice how love quietly rearranges itself…
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 3 min read
Choosing restraint is not about denying care. It is about protecting patients from harm that often arrives disguised as help.
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read
Sometimes, the hardest truth — for families and doctors alike — is accepting that love does not always look like rescue.
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read
Most doctors do not price care in a vacuum. Professional fees reflect years — often decades — of training, specialization, continuing education and…
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read
Trust is the quiet engine of medicine. Without it, no diagnosis truly settles, no treatment plan feels safe, and no reassurance genuinely reassures. For…
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read
Intelligence, no matter how sharp, does not protect us from uncertainty.
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 5 min read
A few days ago, a longtime patient sat across from me and asked a question I didn’t expect.
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read
It’s strange being on this side of 50. We, doctors, are used to interpreting numbers — creatinine, cholesterol, ejection fraction, GFR — and making sense of…
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 5 min read
Medicine will test your knowledge, but it will also test your heart. The real exam begins after the oath-taking — when there are no grades, no medals, no…
Brian Michael Icasas Cabral · · 4 min read