Dr. Thelma Tupasi Ramos has been my mentor during my ID fellowship at Makati Medical Center a long time ago.
She is the personification of excellence translated into action:
- For the service of Filipinos, especially the sick and underprivileged, reaching out to the grassroots
- For the significant advancement of research in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases
- For pioneering proactive and effective infection prevention and control committees involving multi-specialties, despite objections from various sectors
- For the education and training of students and younger colleagues, passing on the torch with the flame of knowledge, critical thinking, perseverance, compassion, integrity, professionalism, and service without discrimination
She was a Ninang at our wedding.
She was so helpful in many ways that she even volunteered her distinguished husband, Dr. Claver Ramos, to insert all my IVs during the seven sessions of my chemotherapy. Each vein was so valuable because only those on my right hand could be used. I realized it was not only Dr. Ramos’s expertise that she wanted to share, but also his compassion and kindness. Imagine the expression on the faces of the nurses every time I told them THE Dr. Claver Ramos would be the one to insert the IV!
I am so blessed to have had you, Dr. Tupasi, as my beloved mentor. Our prayers are for your eternal happiness and God’s eternal embrace.
Your legacy lives on in all the lives you have touched.
