Finding Potential, Then Watching It Grow
What a decade of investing since 2013 taught me about telling a plateau apart from a mistake, and why the same instinct showed up again training the next generation of diagnosticians in 2019. A two-part essay.
Read the essay →One Health Isn't About Disease, It's About Who's Watching
Years spent accrediting and mapping diagnostic laboratories for an FAO One Health program taught me that outbreaks rarely start as something dramatic. They start as something ordinary nobody flagged in time.
Read the essay →The Detective Work Behind a Vet Visit, In Person or Online
History taking, the physical exam, and diagnostics — how veterinary diagnosis actually works, the real constraints of practicing in the Philippines, and where telemedicine genuinely helps versus where it can't.
Read the essay →Designing From the Inside Out: Why Facilities Matter to Me
From an architecture dream at UPLB to running the physical reality of a national reference laboratory — waste systems, biosafety, electrical rewiring, and the instinct that never left. Why I understand facilities from the inside out.
Read the essay →Diagnose Before You Prescribe, in Business Too
A clinic never treats before examining, yet businesses buy solutions before they've named the problem. Notes on running a process audit — and reading the markets — the way a clinician runs a workup.
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