HOSPICE

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                    [Title] => SM's hospice is a comfort zone for sick kids
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SM Foundation’s Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Center at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) provides a cozy comfort zone for children, below one to 13 years, who are stricken with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
                    [DatePublished] => 2012-04-17 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Heart-shock device may disrupt quiet hospice death
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If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off?
                    [DatePublished] => 2010-03-16 18:04:03
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                    [Title] => Hospice  care and pain management
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For situations in which the disease progression requires palliative treatment and the patient may be terminally ill, care for the patient and family is often provided by a hospice.
                    [DatePublished] => 2008-01-24 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1285088
                    [AuthorName] => Dr. Tranquilino Elicaño Jr.
                    [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor
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                    [Title] => Life after  malling
                    [Summary] => The Quezon City General Hospital along Seminary Road a block off Congressional Avenue looks under the plain light of day like a period piece of architecture, what one might even dub a post art-deco building of some sort, indeed a curious rundown hybrid of a structure undergoing constant renovation. On the third floor of QC Gen, often confused with the East Avenue Medical Center beside SSS, is a hospice unit run by the SM Foundation, one of two across the country.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-09-19 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
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                    [AuthorID] => 1431668
                    [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana
                    [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine
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                    [Title] => Her Heart In Her Home Inc.
                    [Summary] => Susan Reyes epitomizes timeless Filipina beauty. Simple and understated, there’s a very natural way she has carried this distinction. 


Unfortunately, we live in a land notorious for stereotyping and hasty conclusions, and many are the times she’s run into people with preconceived notions of where she comes from and her lifestyle. 


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-02-29 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
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                    [AuthorID] => 1805321
                    [AuthorName] => Philip Cu-Unjieng
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                    [Title] => Midwives of the soul
                    [Summary] => Josefina Magno, the doctor acknowledged to have paved the way for the wide acceptance of hospice care in the American health care system, will always remember her brother on his death bed. Journalist and businessman Felix Bautista had already suffered much from cancer. In his last few days in a Makati hospital, his internal systems were shutting down one by one, an almost sure sign of impending death.


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-05-05 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
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                    [AuthorID] => 1303753
                    [AuthorName] => Elvira Pelaez-Marfori
                    [SectionName] => Business As Usual
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                    [Title] => Which vitamins and minerals to take at what age
                    [Summary] => Once again, we give way to the many queries we received from our readers. Though we cannot print all of them, here are my choices of the most interesting questions we’ve received. Hope you’ll all find them informative. 
When To Start

At what age should I start taking supplements and which vitamins and minerals should I be taking? – A.P., Baguio City


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-08-06 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133436
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                    [AuthorID] => 1778504
                    [AuthorName] => Tyrone M. Reyes M.D.
                    [SectionName] => Health And Family
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                    [Title] => Susan Reyes: ‘What I did for love’
                    [Summary] => 
When tycoon Eugenio "Geny" Lopez Jr. died three years ago, his family put out a death announcement which would have been typical except for one line. That line in the full-page obituary made mention of a "loving companion, Susan."


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-06-02 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135221
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1391760
                    [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez
                    [SectionName] => Allure
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                    [Title] => Marissa Lopez-Grassi: She lives for the dying
                    [Summary] => To the manor born, Marisa Lopez-Grassi is a face you’d expect to see in the society page, gracing one ribbon-cutting affair after another or party-hopping here and there. But no, Marisa would rather stay in the background and quietly go about her work that is her life’s passion: caring for the sick and the dying.


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-10-28 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1096607
                    [AuthorName] =>  Ching M. Alano
                    [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle
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SM's hospice is a comfort zone for sick kids

April 17, 2012 - 12:00am

SM Foundation’s Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Center at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) provides a cozy comfort zone for children, below one to 13 years, who are stricken with cancer and other...

Health And Family

Heart-shock device may disrupt quiet hospice death

March 16, 2010 - 6:04pm

If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off?

Hospice  care and pain management

By Dr. Tranquilino Elicaño Jr. | January 24, 2008 - 12:00am

For situations in which the disease progression requires palliative treatment and the patient may be terminally ill, care for the patient and family is often provided by a hospice.

Letters to the Editor

Life after malling

By Juaniyo Arcellana | September 19, 2004 - 12:00am

The Quezon City General Hospital along Seminary Road a block off Congressional Avenue looks under the plain light of day like a period piece of architecture, what one might even dub a post art-deco building of some...

Starweek Magazine

Her Heart In Her Home Inc.

By Philip Cu-Unjieng | February 29, 2004 - 12:00am

Susan Reyes epitomizes timeless Filipina beauty. Simple and understated, there’s a very natural way she has carried this distinction. Unfortunately, we live in a land notorious for stereotyping and hasty conclusions,...

Starweek Magazine

Midwives of the soul

By Elvira Pelaez-Marfori | May 5, 2003 - 12:00am

Josefina Magno, the doctor acknowledged to have paved the way for the wide acceptance of hospice care in the American health care system, will always remember her brother on his death bed. Journalist and businessman...

Business As Usual

Which vitamins and minerals to take at what age

By Tyrone M. Reyes M.D. | August 6, 2002 - 12:00am

Once again, we give way to the many queries we received from our readers. Though we cannot print all of them, here are my choices of the most interesting questions we’ve received. Hope you’ll all find them...

Health And Family

Susan Reyes: ‘What I did for love’

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | June 2, 2002 - 12:00am

When tycoon Eugenio "Geny" Lopez Jr. died three years ago, his family put out a death announcement which would have been typical except for one line. That line in the full-page obituary made mention of...

Allure

Marissa Lopez-Grassi: She lives for the dying

By Ching M. Alano | October 28, 2001 - 12:00am

To the manor born, Marisa Lopez-Grassi is a face you’d expect to see in the society page, gracing one ribbon-cutting affair after another or party-hopping here and there. But no, Marisa would rather stay in...

Sunday Lifestyle