Coche - Spanish word for car

Years ago when I was a little boy, my father keep on prodding me to become a priest. He always tell me that when I become a priest I would have a car just like our parish priest who drives a Volkswagen Beetle. When our parish priest passes by with his Volkswagen I keep looking at the car which is very shiny & the priest looks very happy. I was thinking then that priesthood seems to be a good profession thinking that you'll have a car, you'll have your friends which looks after you, a church, followers & you'll feel happy. 

As years pass by and I become a dentist & family man, and realized that becoming a priest is more than owning a car. Its a total commitment in serving God. My youngest son is in Our Lady of Guadalupe Minor Seminary right now, he will be graduating High School this coming march 2009 in preparation for the Major seminary and later on hopefully to become a priest.

Trust & Integrity

Work Place Ethics Challenges

Think about these business ethics scenarios that happen in organizations every day.

• An employee surfs the Internet shopping for personal items on company time.

• A plant manager decides to ship product to a customer even though he knows the parts have a quality problem because the problem doesn't affect part function and the customer probably won't notice.

• An employee spends several hours a week on her cell phone talking with her children and their associated caregivers, schools, and friends.

• A salesman marks parts as "sold" in the company data base thus depriving others of the ability to sell the parts, even though his sale is uncertain.

• A manager shares important company information with a competitor for her potential gain.

• A store misrepresents the quality or functionality of an advertised sale item.

• An employee takes office supplies home to stock his home office.

• A finance officer accounts questionably for purchases and expenditures.

• An accountant tells a supplier that their "check is in the mail" when he knows he hasn't written the check.

Do any of these situations sound familiar? Sure they do. You encounter these and others like them regularly if you spend any time in organizations. Are these "bad people" or "good people" making questionable ethical choices?

Do they even consider whether the choices they are making are ethical? (After all, the plant manager may think, the most important issue is to get the parts to the customer on time. Or, the employee rationalizes, "I give this employer lots of over-time and thinking time outside work hours so I deserve the time at work to surf the Web.")

So, before you relegate the subject of business ethics to the touchy-feely, head-in-the-clouds worlds of philosophy, religion, or academia, consider the potential positive impact on your organization of a working code of business ethics.

You can develop a written code of business ethics that guides the decision making and actions of all of your stakeholders. Your reputation and track record for ethical behavior and integrity are vital for establishing the trust that is the basis for all successful relationships you sustain including those with your customers, employees, community and your stock holders. Why would you leave something this important to chance?

Developing a code of business ethics will not stop unethical behavior but it will give people something to think about, a measurement against which to assess their behavior.

Mustard

I remember when I was a little boy age 8-9 years old. It was All Souls day we have to go to the cemetery to visit our dearly departed grand father & mother. It was the only time that I remember that we go out with my father, after some prayer (they are protestant, Im catholic ) and candle lighting on the tombstone, off we go to go home. But along the way my brother ask my father to eat at the nearby restaurant(burger) it was the only resto open on that day and there is no McDonalds, Jolibee or Wendy's at that time. Pure Pinoy hamburger lang nun so you savor any burger sandwich that is made locally. I saw my father eating his big burger with lots of mustard, when he bites some mustard dripping at the corner of his mouth. Ang sarap sarap sana ng burger nun.

Is there no one else?!!!

He’s meaner and badder as days passes by. Look out!

Congratulations Manny Pacquiao!!! Ang pambansang Kamao!!!

Here's a clip of Pacquiao’s recent Nike commercials.

Virtuoso

My eldest son is the artistic one in the family, he's 18y/o going 19 this coming October. In his high school days he's fondly called by his friends as the Virtuoso because he is very good in playing the violin. Before that, he is already playing the guitar & drums. I remember that when he ask me to buy him a guitar he was only 12 or 13 years old at that time, I ask him who will be the one to teach him, because I don't know a damn thing about music its only Do Re Mi that I know when we have a music class way back then when I was in high school and that was years ago (ooops revealing too much of my age) he told me "basta bahala na ko Pa", I didn't know that he was researching in the internet on how to play the guitar. After a week he is playing the guitar with his favorite song. And I told myself that this boy is very good in music!

The rest is history, now he is taking up music at St. Paul College of Music. He is now playing violin by Zhang Shu Mei (aray! dami na nabili kase na violin), piano (aray again! mahal ng yamaha) clarinet, drums, Kolintang etc.. He had attended countless recital to prove his skill. Recently as a gift to him, me and my wife put up a solo concert for him titled "The Gift" at the PhilAmlife Auditorium and it was well attended by his & our friends, relatives, students of St Paul, his teachers etc..

Another Patrick's fashion (other fashion is eating) recently was Photography, that's when I bought a DSLR Camera. This kid has an eye for everything. I have placed some of his photos taken just recently.

Rememorari-latin word for remember

Three years ago I have an american patient who came here to have his teeth done, we became friends then on. He visited me a month ago for another round of work on his teeth. Brought a a bagful of gifts including a big bar of Hershey chocolate( that was the first time I saw a big big bar of chocolate of hershey) after treatment  he said "I love you Doc and I want to see again but I dont want to see you in the near future, seeing you again means there is trouble in my teeth and I dont want that to happen". What a guy!

Every time he emails me to say hello there is always a typhoon/storm that has pass thru here in manila or other parts of the Philippines. Yesterday he emailed me again asking if I was ok, I said "I'm ok thanks for asking". Its very sad that there is another disaster/typhoon/boat sunk that had occurred. Let us all pray for the eternal reposed of the souls of the victims of Typhoon Frank.

Techie Mom

My wife will be surprise that I put up something like this (Blog), she's into computer for quite awhile now, I bought her a new MacBook Air with matching IPhone(just maximized the use of it when she had her Macbook, very proud about it) I remember when I bought her a a 286 windows 3.2, hehehehe napaka jurasic but with the help of my brother in law (sonny) you just type in a number, a corresponding application will pop up..ha!...it was a techie at that time. We've used it for at least a year and then she upgraded it to Windows 95 with Pentium 1, 16mb of memory and 6 gig of hardisk, talking about high tech, this the number 1 set up of computer at the time with matching dot matrix epson printer(I forgot about th e model).

Anyways, she's using her macbook air for her teaching at the college of dentistry, ang sakit ng wallet ko because it had to match with an LCD projector hehehehe...anyways I bought it because I love her so much! pogi points when she read this!

Blog? What Blog?

Its been a very long time since my friends & my daughter("Budgie", I think she has one but cant find them she's very secretive) keep on prodding me in putting a blog on my website. Now here it is, it took me awhile because of my very busy schedule, I don't know how will I ever maintain this blog but here it is. 

Feel free to post/comment whatever your dig is. It would be nice if you can post some experience with your patients, clinics, supplier whatever it is with regards to your practice