Doc Mark Joseph Cuntapay

02/10/2025

This heartbreaking experience in public hospitals, underscores a painful truth that poor healthcare in the Philippines is not just a medical issue, but a governance crisis.

UNDERFUNDING and CORRUPTION drain resources that should provide timely procedures, adequate equipment, and skilled professionals. This in turn cause patients to suffer preventable deaths, in which us doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers are demoralized by the low wages and poor working conditions, some of which I knew, are driven abroad.

I hope in the future, transparent funding and proper government funding in our healthcare-we could save lives, restore dignity to patients, and create meaningful jobs that keep our professionals in the country.

Every peso stolen from healthcare is not just a loss of money—it is a loss of life and hope.

25/09/2025

23/09/2025

23/09/2025

20/09/2025

A Morning of Hope in the Halls of Service
By Dr. Tony Leachon

This morning, in the quiet corridors of the hospital, I crossed paths with a group of young medical colleagues—two from Isabela, one from Sorsogon, and one from Zamboanga. What began as a brief encounter became a moment of reflection.

Despite the defunding of PhilHealth, the corruption in flood control projects, the rising number of poor patients unable to afford hospitalization, and the literal floods that make reaching the workplace a daily struggle—they showed up. With quiet resolve. With hearts full of service.

They are young, patriotic, courageous, and persevering. And they remind me why I chose this path.

The best part of being a mentor is not just sharing knowledge—it’s passing on the values that matter: hard work, sacrifice, and the sacred commitment to healing.

These young doctors carry that torch, even when the winds of injustice try to blow it out.

I am proud to be a Filipino physician today.
Not because the system is perfect.
But because the spirit of our profession endures.

We will rise to the challenge.
Not with rage, but with reason.
Not with despair, but with dignity.

Because in every ward, every clinic, and every flooded street—there are healers still choosing hope.

18/09/2025

13/09/2025

35 is “Just a number”

The years may add up, but this heart still choose to remain young - curious, playful, hopeful.

Growing older doesn’t mean losing the child within but it means carrying that same wonder with more wisdom, more resilience, and more gratitude.

Here’s to being 35, yet still a child at heart:
living, laughing, and learning.

14/08/2025

The Philippine Heart Association (PHA) is alarmed by the shortage of cardiologists in the country with only one cardiologist for every 44,000 Filipinos.

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/08/13/pha-alarmed-over-cardiologist-shortage

27/07/2025

Everyone wants to be great at something, but no one wants to be bad at it first.

The truth is, your first attempt will probably suck.
But your 100th won’t exist if you don’t allow yourself to be terrible at your first.

Stop waiting to be ready. Start.

C: alec_zamora

17/07/2025

MDH Department of Internal Medicine 22nd Postgraduate Course