The doctor is outThere’s another reason why we must urgently address the crisis in education: we need more people to join the health care professions. At 11 a.m., the doctor still wasn’t in, although the assistant had arrived, and began writing down the information about new patients like my mom. He gave us a referral, and his secretary said this doctor was on duty at the hospital until 12 noon. I told my companions to wait for me while I rushed to catch the doctor and request him to work beyond his clinic hours. Patients in that hospital aren’t charity cases; basic consultation with that first doctor costs an average of P1,500.
