Clinic Now Open to the Arts and Letters Cluster!

Yesterday was our first clinic with an expanded population serving the University of the Philippines Diliman Arts and Letters Cluster – the Colleges of Human Kinetics, Fine Arts, Media & Communication, Arts & Letters and of course our host, the College of Music. We had patients from 3 of the colleges so I guess that’s […]

From Polio Survivor to Adaptive Sports Athlete

Check out Tony’s Wheels, a new bilingual (English and Filipino/Tagalog) children’s book. I love this! Because: #1 it’s a book about a polio survivor getting around in the world and into adaptive sports, and #2 my Tita (Aunt) Mila Bongco-Phillipzig wrote it and I’m proud of her. From the book webpage: Mila Bongco-Philipzig | AuthorMila […]

My Medical Humanities Journey

In the post introducing the blog (WORMHOLE), I mention that I’ve thought of the sciences and arts as two separate entities, with me having one foot in the sciences and the other in the arts and hopping in an “all or nothing” way between those two. I think the best illustration for this dichotomy happened […]