Essay by Marc Gregory Y. Yu Posted online 3:14 AM, November 19, 2017; First published in September 2017

FIRST PRIZE. Dr. Marc Gregory Yu (right) with fellow contestants at the 2016 International Speaking Competition for Young Endocrinologists. Photo by Marc Gregory Yu 

My family loves to eat. My grandmother enjoys rice with mangoes; my sister cannot live without ice cream; and as for my dad,

Essay by Elvie Victonette Razon-Gonzalez Posted online 2:20 AM, November 19, 2017; First published in September 2017

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself you will succumb in every battle. —Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War

Medicine and War. War and Medicine. An oxymoron when used in the same breath. Two different concepts, one almost negating the other. The delineation is quite clear. There is no mistaking it. One breathes life into man; the other snuffs life out of him. The other edifies compassion; the other nullifies it with unimaginable atrocities.