One medical group reports that in the next few years the country will experience a major health crisis due to shortages in doctors and nurses and lack of funding for public health care. As it is, numbers are already pretty grim and more professionals are leaving for work abroad.

As more doctors and nurses leave, who will take care of Filipinos who remain?

Anyway, that was a nicely-written letter from Mr. Donesa… But hate crime? That's taking it too far. If the arguments are getting this much, it only means it's time to reel it in a bit people.

I think "having the right to be offended" is one thing but crying "racism" is too much. I personally think that the comment was too mild to raise hell over. When we say it's racism, we are in fact, raising the stakes unnecessarily. The network apologized. I think that's enough. More importantly, we need to take these things as a challenge to look within and see if it has some basis in fact. What I don't agree with is that the comment is supposedly a racial slur, when it's not. It must be viewed in the context that DepEd and our PRC need to straighten their act and be stricter in granting licenses and eadministering licensure examinations in ANY field. To give you a very subjective example, my boss has a friend who could not enter medical school in Tokyo so what do you think he did? He went to the Philippines! The impression is that it's easier to get through medical schools in Manila than in Tokyo, which his friend purportedly proved. Is the view unfair and invalid? Arguable. I can easily replace the medical field with another and it will not lose it's intended effect.

cheers!
TonyB

I'm not in the medial profession but looking at it from their vantage point, it's a stab to their credibility and profession. That generalization isn't warrant and is untrue so the show producers should really correct that. Those who felt that we are over reacting should think twice

The real culprits are the commercial review centers and corrupt govt regulators responsible for that nursing exam leak scandal. They were the ones that damaged the reputation of ofw health care workers, now the Fil-Am medical community is paying for it.

One thing about Americans though, they accept people into the mainstream who are "good sports" and can take racial slurs with aplomb. Because it IS a meritocracy, and Filipinos have long ago proven their real worth.

And let's not lose sight of the log in our own eye, called Miriam Defensor Santiago, who surely is more representative of filipinos than teri hatcher is of americans.

I didn't realize that you are here. You left me a message and I responded but you never returned. This is the very first time I am responding to an anonymous entry. There won't be a next time because people with no IDs just want to ignite people. In any case, here's my clarification (posted in my blog comments as answer to your comment):

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Sharmaine:

You can put your on your ID Sharmaine. We won’t attack you. I don’t like people leaving comments without ID’s but I’ll respond to you anyway.:

Let me be bluntly honest with you: I admire you for your comments because there’s not a lot of people like you. Some of those who disagree with me takes swipe and insults me on other blogs or behind my back and so I am not able to defend myself. Having said that, you should be commended, really. That was nice.

First: Me getting mad at people who disagree with me? You see these people na ginawa nang chat room ang blog ko? Puro ko kaaway yan dati. Here’s my record. Bluepanjeet disagreed with me. Chuva blasted me several times if he disagrees with my twisted opinions. Jon Limjap disagreed with me several times. There was a Senatoriable who was here who blasted the heck out of me. Kutz disagreed with me. Cat at some point disagreed with me and a number more who, interestingly, tingnan mo naman at naging regulars here and actually became my blogfriends. So, forget about that. Just don’t hit from the behind or hitting me for some ulterior motives. The fact that you were straight-faced about it and not a coward is commendable and there’s no reason in the world why I should be mad at you. I get pissed at self-righteous people who link-baits me for some traffic or readership or who maligns me behind my back and calling their minions to attack me. That’s cowardice. That’s backstabbing. Those tactics are not fair because I am not able to defend myself.

Second: The issue is not about me disliking bloggers/people to comment and/or react negatively. Can you imagine if all Pinoy blogs have just one opinion? We’d all be blogging live from Pyongyang!

The issue I raised here is completely different. Pinoy bloggers and “professionals” charged and called us (Filipinos who reside in the US) as onion-skinned people and other demeaning words because of our reaction to the DH issue. That’s a lot of insensitivity!

My point is – have they had the chance to live in the US, work in a multi-cultural environment, feel how it is to be discriminated here, get to know and understand the mentality of the people here, I believe the harshness and tone will change. It’s different if you’re from the outside looking in than if you’re smack in the middle of it, and worst if you’re a part of the experience, you know what I mean? Put in a different sentence, I’m sure if you were discriminated against, your perspective will be more sensitive to your fellow Filipinos who are on the frontline. I hope I was clear.

Third: “but I do not agree with you.” Having clarified my position – You actually agree with me. Agree?

EKKKKK! nasa Mendiola na naman ba ako?! hehehe

- *awat* bluepanjeet *awat* ade -

ALAM NYO BA? FALL NA SA EAST COAST. hehehe

lumabas ako nag-kape, puro usuk! foggy evah evah! yun pala me awayan!

*tago*

Lighten up people! Everyone has the right to voice their opinions after all. I never said that nobody can't get offended in the first place.

this is the kind of remark that I really loathe. Do you even know what the signs and symptoms of ADHD is? care to compare notes or exchange diagnosis?

you see ade, people like you are the ones that i hate to label, but i love to kick butt with my wits. simply because you take everything in the wrong perspective.

I dont want to call you retarded because its not my style to label people and i dont want to go down to your level just because you see yourself as someone who is wittier than the wisemen of congo. but the way you talk trash and call us by name, pare, that is really uncalled for.

I'm glad i have ADHD at least im on track with my mental age. I wont debate on someone whose emotional age is zero and the mental age is 1.

you started it, then let me finish it. just pray that i wont be your health care provider in the hospital. maliit lang ang mundo pare. and if you want this to stop, i suggest you keep your mum about people you dont really know or else, bring it on bud!

('tol! tau na lang ba ang tau sa pinoy blog world?! hahaha!) You must have read the same blog! I've been put by one link baiter under the column called "Retarded", after a good number of bloggers called me "Onion-skinned", "Ube-reactor", etc., etc., etc.., that is – after somebody labeled me "Delusional". I guess my opinions err… rants… err… whatever it is that I type on my keyboard hurts the shit out of them. I'd say, they kiss my shitty fil-american ass.

BUT LET ME GET BACK TO THE TOPIC:

Atheista,

I should have known you were posting an entry like this so I could have just referred my Reyna haters to your blog article! HAHAHA!

Love what you wrote!!!!

I think I just offended the ones afflicted with ADHD! OMG!

this statement is very unfair and untrue since they were the first one who called those who were offended as whining babies and onion-skinned. talking about one sidedness.

I just don't get it anymore. are people these days not anymore capable of intellectual and reasonable argument? are people really stoned now? I wish.. and just wish that another discriminatory incident would happen and if these very same people would react, I dont want to be there when the laughter stops!

feelings are not debatable. even in hospitals, pain is subjective. why can't they understand that? sheesh!