Unlock Now Surgeons Do Not Cry Crafted By Ting Tiongco Available As Digital Version

book is superb it isn't very timely since it was published in, However, the bits of knowledge coming from the book can be learned from and applied to our lives, It just does not talk about being a doctor in the Philippines, Besides, it discusses being a citizen, a friend, a patient, and just being a person,./“Be honest

and humble, do not stop trying in spite of the bitter disappointments and heartrendering frustrations, Strive to listen to your people as they speak to you in the silence of the oppressed, ”

.for sure! I would definitely recommend this book especially to those who are interested in pursuing a career in the medical field.
“Surgeons Do Not Cry” shares very interesting insights of a doctors life as well as it perfectly explains what being a doctor is like and what it means to be a doctor in the Philippines during martial law as well.


I really liked how this book was written as it was very straightforward and though there were many serious topics discussed, there were also many comedic and lighthearted stories! Lovely.
Finished it very quickly. I'm not a product of PGH, but I've heard some anecdotes from friends and colleagues, so I thought I'd be prepared for what I would read in the book.
Boy was I wrong! A lot of the author's stories were shocking, heartwrenching, and one was so messedup, it was almost unbelievable I was afraid I'd get nightmares after that chapter.
Anyway, upon turning the last page, I immediately handed the book to my husband, as he is a UP premed and med graduate.
However, he took his residency in the States, so I thought he'd appreciate a look at what his life could have been had he stayed here.
Methinks he'd thank his lucky that he'd decided to do his training elsewhere, Surgeons Do Not Cry by, Dr. Jose “Ting” R. M. Tiongco. A collection of experiences of a renegade badass Atenista turned into Doktor ng Bayan packed into succinct essays, Entertaining is an understatement for this marvel of a book, Arrogance, forgiveness, humor, nationalism, and more, Definitely a reread!

Noteworthy: “PGH, the acronym for the Philippine General Hospital, was better taken among us who worked there to mean Pagod, Gutom, at Hirap.
And this is not an understatement, ”
This is a compilation of short stories about how the author's medical training in the University of the PhilippinesPGH changed him.
The stories about his first few years have a youthful air in the narration, and progress to reveal a doctor who has slowly matured in the institution.
There are funny anecdotes, like that of the broken male organ!, and there are also heartbreaking stories of regret, and of painfully being exposed to the health and social conditions of the poor in Manila.
The author's message is for young Filipino doctors to reach out to the patients and listen, heal not only the physical but also the social aspect of their suffering.
another book about a doctor's journey in medical school! this was very similar to 'some days you can't save them all', but this book specifically highlights medicine before and during the marcos regime.


this book was so wellwritten and i personally found dr, tiongco's journey so interesting. would definitely recommend! Indeed, truth is stranger than fiction, I could only imagine the COVID stories of our Filipino doctors, Read this book because when I started browsing through it, I came across this short chapter about a guy who was in the ER for a broken penis.
Literally. And it made me laugh, especially because the author told it so matteroffactly, So I read from the beginning, and found that most of the chapters in this book did make me laugh, And a few made me want to cry, But all of the Surgeons Do Not Cry's short chapters impressed me with Ting Tiongco's clarity of writing and vision about the goals of a top medical school in a thirdworld country.


This book is a serendipitous discovery and is seriously one of my best reads this year, One of the best books if not the best that I have read this year, Will keep this in my shelf, It's a profound experience reading through Tiongco's experiences as a student then as a Surgery resident in PGH, As a young boy, I never liked going for checkups and the like, becauseI've come to associate the scent of disinfectants inside the hospital with imminent death, which seem to pervade the hallways, the rooms, and sometimes even my clothes andI've always felt that doctors were too busy to probably cultivate a even grain of care for their patients.
With their schedules, I've imagined them going through their checklists mechanically, and like the walls of the hospitals, admittedly cold, The first few chapters in Ting Tiongco's Surgeons Do Not Cry echoed a similar coldness and guarded storytelling, like someone relaying facts instead of engaging the reader, but by the time I was going through the fourth or fifth chapter, the stoic nature that I perceived that this book has was starting to fade and each section was becoming more of a breaktime chat or listening to your parents' share stories from their young adult years.


What left a mark on me was that the author lamented the fact that coming from the best medical school in the country has seemingly created this Fordist impression that the students would mostly come from firsttier universities, get their internship and go on a few years as a resident, send their applications in to US hospitals, end their stint and go abroad, secure a position and rake in an enormous salary.
And with the slew of issues in the country's healthcare system, how ironic it is that some of us spend our training years locally, only to serve foreigners and be proud of how well they are treated, leaving our countrymen still clamoring for a decent medical response.
Perhaps, Tiongco was right in saying that medical schools might be focusing too much on the "Science of Medicine" but forgot how to each them the "Art of Medicine.
" It seems that to this day, students, interns and residents each have to learn the nuances of humanity by ear, This collection of anecdotes/stories/essays of the author when he was a student and then a surgeon at UPPGH is an interesting read on how noble the practice of medicine is and how pitiful is our healthcare system.
The writer tells of hilarious and sad case histories of patients, his first DOT dead on the table or those patients who die on the operating table, his adventures as an idealistic medical student, and his growing sadness on the state of PGH and the public health system of the Philippines in general.
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