Every doctor learns, usually the hard way, that patients forget most of what we tell them in the clinic but never forget how we made them feel. A correct diagnosis delivered with a sneer can do more harm than a wrong one delivered with kindness. We call it bedside manner, and in medicine it is...
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Fight back
Why are we not yet fighting back against China in the West Philippine Sea? Despite the numbing regularity with which Philippine vessels are rammed, blocked, water-cannoned, shot at with flares, and the corresponding injury, deprivation and harassment suffered by our service personnel, as well as damage and theft of our government property and natural resources,...