Cardinal Santos Hospital

I’m currently here at the Cardinal Santos Hospital where my wife will undergo an operation. I’ve been to quite a few hospitals and I gotta say if ever I had to be hospitalized (knock on wood!) the Cardinal Santos Hospital would be on the top of my list. This place is swanky and doesn’t have that hospital smell-of-death to it. They have a coffee vendo machine which has a gazillion different versions of coffee - coffee latte, frappucino, you name it they got it. The only downside is it’s very expensive especially the food. I bought a bag of Oishi crackers and it cost me P37, if I bought it in a grocery it would probably cost P12-15 these guys charge an arm and a leg! Oh well I guess if there’s any place where it’s gonna cost you an arm and a leg it’s a hospital. At least for me it’s only metaphorically and not literally.

Oh and I was reading the newsletters Cardinal Santos Hospital have posted on the bulletin boards and I came across this interesting tidbit - according to Time magazine 7,000 people die annually due to illegible doctors handwriting. Makes me glad I didn’t become a doctor, otherwise my sanskrit style penmanship would probably have killed dozens of people by now.