Kids, if you're going to come for a doctor with actual academic and professional experience in medicine, over a medical issue, while you're not a medical practitioner yourself, make sure you're aremed with substantial data that's verified, tested and peer-reviewed. https://twitter.com/jvncnc/status/1264394159491694593

Titles and licenses do not come with ivory towers and I am sure Doc @notbismarkymark will be more than willing to engage with you constructively, if you weren't such a douche.

Someone once told me that while "pasma" doesn't have a an actual medical equivalent, it's treated as an umbrella term that Filipinos refer to a broad set of symptoms which OBVIOUSLY don't just happen without reason. The language isn't equipped to have equivalence in all--

--medical terms but the term "pasma" is definitely a prompt for further investigation to pinpoint the exact cause, that would have objective interventions known already.

You see @jvncnc, if you spent five more minutes thinking about your tweet, you would come to the conclusion "pasma" is an interdisciplinary issue to tackle--non-equivalence of languages and jargon due to differences in culture, how medicine deciphers through these differences etc

Instead you soapboxed sans actual facts. Here's a search query of sone relevant papers regarding the phenomena, learn to read: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=pasma+philippines&oq=pasma+phili

And fyi @jvncnc I took the time to make this thread because I think you're an ass for blaming people just because you think you know better. Napakayabang. As an educator, I can identify that that kind of behavior means that you're in the UI quadrant of this learning curve...

...so instead of acting on impulse and attacking this tweet, or ignoring it and perpetuating ignorance, I'm offering you what I think maybe enough of a prompt to rethink your stance and learn mo.