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Posted on May 14, 2014 by reyojoson
MDH Team Development Activity Honoring for Dr. Reynaldo Joson by Dr. Manuel Villegas, Jr., May 14, 2014
Today I would like to give tribute to a man I call my mentor and my friend. Yes it was his sixty fifth birthday recently and yes he has had numerous well deserved tributes already. But I believe it is with us at Manila Doctors that he has been happiest and proudest. Dr. Rey has devoted his life sharing himself to others especially to our Hospital’s leaders,officers and staff. I have been the recipient of this sharing numerous times.
The first time I met Dr. Rey was in a lecture he was giving on hospital administration. The first impression that came to me was his passion to share what he knows to all. Years later, I came to his office in Manila Doctors Hospital for one of my subjects asking him about the hospital’s disaster preparedness program of which he pioneered. He was all too willing to share it with me. Two years later, I found myself back in his office, this time applying for the corporate planning officer position. The corporate planning office was just created with Dr. Rey as the first head. It was then the start of a long relationship.
As a physician and surgeon, he has shared his knowledge to his patients, enabling them in actively participating in the management of their concerns. He guides his patients through the steps or through an algorithm with the best possible medical probabilities. Medicine as we would always hear from him is an imperfect science. His holistic and evidence- based view on health bring his health advocacies to all who care to listen: breast care and breast cancer awareness, santol seed ingestion avoidance, fire cracker injury avoidance, among others. His legacy of caring and healing is documented in his memoirs through pictures of patients who have even gained years in their lives after battling cancer. His works in literature and research in the medical field had been recognized by various institutions.
As a hospital administrator, he has guided several medical institutions in achieving their vision for themselves. He has created through years of experience and insight several guiding frameworks that he freely shares through e-mail and his websites. Aside from these, he has shared his ideas and concepts to all academic institutions. He is in constant communications with hospital administrators around the country creating discussion and even consensus in issues like hospital excellence. They also seek his insights into their local problems. For his contributions, Manila Doctors Hospital and other institutions like Ciudad Medical Zamboanga and Ospital ng Maynila have garnered international and national recognition.
As a teacher, he is known to have a down-to-earth engagement of his students leaving them with pearls from his vast experience. He arms this next generation of physicians, administrators and academicians with practical tools to handle anything that come their way. As his on-the-job executive experiential student myself, I have gained a wealth of knowledge and skills I never hope to gain in any academic course. His every lecture and every speech is a culmination of selfless research, analysis, synthesis and practical insights. In several instances, international institutions have even sought his permission to use his lectures and manuscripts for discussion in their meetings and activities. Pictures of students, fellow doctors, hospital staff from various institutions reflect their genuine appreciation of the intense effort they witness in Dr. Rey’s lectures or speeches.
Dr. Rey, we wish you health and all the happiness in your year of semi retirement. Rest assured that your teachings, the knowledge, the skills and your legacy in MDH will continue to improve the Hospital in it’s next 100 years.
Dr. Manuel Villegas
Thank you, Manny, for this public expression of appreciation of me. This is very heartwarming particularly on the occasion of my retirement this year as I need affirmation of whether I have done something for MDH and whether they are enough to justify my retirement. In the light of my retirement from MDH administration, I thank all of the MDH staff for the support you have given me. I also thank you for the learning I got from my interactions with you. Maraming salamat.
ROJ@14may31
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