There is a very large literature on Anesthesiology in the Philippines, two thousand or so of them. Each anesthesiologist today holds in part a measure of the chronicle. The prologue to our story encompasses the past, of anesthesia's beginnings in foreign shores. Our own chapter begins, at a much later date, when a young doctor alighted from a plane 53 years ago. By following his trail we can weave the multiple strands of peoples, places and events that make the tapestry of Philippine anesthesiology today.
ANESTHESIOLOGY ; ANESTHESIA