{"id":1124,"date":"2020-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:02:48","slug":"dr-israel-bactol-cardiologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Israel Bactol, Cardiologist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr Israel Bactol, a promising 34-year-old Cardiology Fellow working at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC), lost his fight against Covid-19, on March 21.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been around many physicians. Everybody\u2019s brilliant. But, every now and then, you come across a person who just separates himself from the crowd. That\u2019s El,\u201d Dr Tom-Louie Acosta told Rappler in an interview.\n<\/p>\n

Acosta, an internist, is Bactol\u2019s close friend and co-trainee from his 3-year residency at Premiere Medical Center in Cabanatuan City.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t help but gravitate towards him because he was such a beautiful person, on top of being a brilliant physician,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

Bactol\u2019s memory is etched in the hearts of his family, friends, fellow physcians, hospital colleagues, and patients coming from underserved communities.\n<\/p>\n

Bactol, whose parents are both public school teachers in Pe\u00c3\u00b1aranda town in Nueva Ecija, believes that the medical profession should be in the service of the people.\n<\/p>\n

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Dr Israel Bactol, a promising 34-year-old Cardiology Fellow working at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC), lost his fight against Covid-19, on March 21. \u201cI\u2019ve been around many physicians. Everybody\u2019s brilliant. But, every now and then, you come across a person who just separates himself from the crowd. That\u2019s El,\u201d Dr Tom-Louie Acosta told Rappler in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[231,48,20,7019],"tags":[5636,6507,5638,133,686,435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Israel_Bactol.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5399,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=5399","url_meta":{"origin":1124,"position":0},"title":"Israel Bactol, Cardiologist","date":"March 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Israel Bactol \u2013 a Cardiologist at Philippine Heart Center, Metro Manila, Philippines \u2013 passed away on 21 March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Israel was 34 years old. 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