Honoria acosta-sison biography of martin

She was, above all, a physician. That was what she set out to do, to heal men and women, particularly women in their most vulnerable and useful state — pregnancy and all its attendant ills.

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One could say with Garchitorena-Goloy in this "her enthusiasm for her calling" she never "wavered a bit since at the P.G.H. she called " a symphathetic doctor." It was said then time had not withered nor "custom staled the first early interest in her work." The long years of hospital work had not hardened her suffering and death. She still felt "deeply with her patients in their throes of mental and physical anguish." Taking care "to be almost always at the patient’s bedside" when she had a very serious case.

She was particularly mindful of the poor.

In cases of discrimination by hospital attendants, she "always impressed on them that however poor a woman might be, she and her child deserving of the same care and consideration shown the well-to-do" for many a poor mother had, according to her, " Hail the first female Pinoy doctors - POV