The Filipino Doctor Behind a Life-Saving Antibiotic One Filipino doctor played a key role in the discovery of one of the most important antibiotics in the world. A medicine that has saved millions of lives and is still widely used today to treat serious infections such as pneumonia, skin infections like acne, ear infections in children, and even sexually transmitted infections. It is also a crucial option for patients who are allergic to penicillin. In the late 1940s, when doctors around the wor