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JCI North Jersey kids send love to the troops
By Cristina DC Pastor How well do mothers and daughters work together? In the case of Rahway, N.J. mother of five Joyce Andes-David and her oldest daughter, Jazmine, they work best when community teamwork is at stake. Joyce and Jazmine put their heads together when conceptualizing a monthly activity for JCI North Jersey, a newly […]
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Phillipe Nover: ‘The Filipino Assassin’ is a healing nurse
By John Sapida Blue scrubs by day, Lycra shorts when he has a match. Such is the intriguing ‘double life’ of Phillipe Nover, a cardiac catheterization nurse and a mixed martial artist who goes by the formidable fighting moniker, “The Filipino Assassin.” The job description of a nurse is quite a feat already. Imagine pursuing […]
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Elizabeth Arreglado, highest ranking Filipina, bids goodbye to the NYSE
By Cristina DC Pastor On the week I came to visit Elizabeth Recto Arreglado at her office in the New York Stock Exchange, Ninez — as she is known to family and close friends – was in the midst of attending to her busy schedule. I was there to interview the highest ranking Filipina in […]
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Nurses are compassionate professionals, bullying ‘unacceptable,’ states ex-PNA-NY president
By Susan Gador Allow me to share my personal opinion. I am not here to contradict any comments and opinions expressed in The FilAm series “When the bullies are doctors and senior nurses: How FilAm nurses cope (Part 1)” and “Gossip as a form of bullying (Part 2).” “Bullying, lateral violence, eating the young,” or […]
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT: Gossip as a form of bullying (Part 2)
By Cristina DC Pastor They continue to walk the corridors of every hospital and nursing facility, these doctors with a huge ego and a ‘God Complex.’ Some senior nurses walk in their shadow. “These are doctors who think just because they have many years of education they know everything, and no one can tell them […]
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT: When the bullies are doctors and senior nurses: How FilAm nurses cope (Part 1)
By Cristina DC Pastor The doctor was performing a delicate surgery when the scrub nurse handed him the wrong instrument. The surgeon was furious and out of irritation pushed the petite Filipino nurse until she fell from her riser. She was new to the hospital. In another incident, a senior nurse in a Manhattan hospital […]
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SO JANNELLE!: Quad amputee Karen Crespo and The Theory of Anything is Possible
By Jannelle So It’s only the second week of January and already, Karen Crespo’s black book is filled with business appointments, media interviews, and speaking engagements. No surprise there as her 2014 calendar had been pretty busy. “If you told me a few years ago that I would find myself in this position, I would […]
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Cancer mom Cheely Ann Sy fights son’s battle
By Cristina DC Pastor September 2014 would be the beginning of an uphill battle for Richard and Cheely Ann Sy of Bergenfield, New Jersey. On September 3, their youngest and only son, 3-year-old Richard Aiden or RJ, was diagnosed with Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that usually afflicts children. Since that […]
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FilAms usher in the New Year with a…brrr… polar plunge
By Cristina DC Pastor When it was time, Chrissi Fabro stripped down to her Betty Paige bikini and jumped into the freezing waters of the Coney Island Beach with about 2,000 others. She got out after 30 seconds when her feet began to feel numb and heavy, and went back in the water for another […]