If you exclude medical challenges faced by war-torn countries like Ukraine and places of eternal violence like Afghanistan, one of the toughest jobs in the medical world is being done at one of those architectural wonders along Taft Avenue in Manila, the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). Message boards of the overworked, round-the-clock tired medical internists at the ER and charity ward of the PGH and members of the workers union reveal the struggle of the hospital to cope with medical emergencies of an urban population that lives, in most cases, in conditions of abject want and grinding poverty.

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