In pre-Dominion Philippines, it was understood that while not all priestesses were healers, all healers were priestesses.  To heal was to be attuned to the primal creative force of the universe;  it was a sacred calling.   Healing remains a duty and a commitment for millions of medical workers from the Philippines and of Philippine ancestry flung to just about every continent of the world under the labor export policy of the Philippine government, often to work in unsafe and discriminatory conditions, as well as being grossly underpaid.  How neglectful of its own irreplaceable medical skills the Philippines can be is seen in the medical workforce’s 16% share of COVID-19 infection within its own territory when the contagion broke out.