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                    [ArticleID] => 1243296
                    [Title] => MakatiMed offers MIS
                    [Summary] => 

Because of the possible risks and side effects, the inevitable pain it would cause, and the difficulty of having to go through it, physically, emotionally, and mentally, people have always had negative predispositions when it comes to medical surgeries.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 827939 [Title] => Healing as ministry [Summary] =>

Many organizations and movements inevitably grow from being inward-looking to doing what is generally called “outreach.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136115 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1398024 [AuthorName] => Joe Yamamoto [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 700067 [Title] => Robotic surgery: A sci-fi dream, now a reality [Summary] =>

You’d think robotics in surgery was just a scene in a science fiction movie.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1670708 [AuthorName] => Rebecca B. Singson, MD [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 556402 [Title] => Asian Hospital launches fully integrated operating room [Summary] =>

Asian Hospital and Medical Center is again at the forefront of delivering world-class patient care as it launches the Philippines’ first and only minimally invasive surgery integrated operating room suite.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 539612 [Title] => Asian Hospital offers US' laparoscopic surgery [Summary] =>

The most raved about laparoscopic or minimally invasive procedure in the United States today, Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS), is now being offered at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 483851 [Title] => Oops Doc, You Cut The Wrong Limb [Summary] =>

Comedy writers often poke fun at surgical errors like cutting the wrong limb, wrong intestine, wrong breast, wrong heart or even cutting open the wrong person.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1728377 [AuthorName] => Ruth Mercado [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 467431 [Title] => Cuts like a knife [Summary] =>

You really can’t get through the day without being bombarded by a plethora of beauty and slimming treatments, lotions, and potions.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136213 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1274871 [AuthorName] => Donna Cuna-Pita [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 413452 [Title] => Surgery inside a mall? [Summary] => Liposuction, dialysis, thermage, corrective eye surgery or 4D ultrasound in a mall? Shoppers may now avail themselves ... [DatePublished] => 2008-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1742992 [AuthorName] => Serena Ordoveza [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 56335 [Title] => EDITORIAL – Beasts in white [Summary] =>

A gay florist in his 30s is suing the Don Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in the wake of a surgery to remove a perfume spray can from his rectum in which the surgical team composed of doctors and nurses had a field day ridiculing and humiliating him.

[DatePublished] => 2008-04-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342016 [Title] => The advantages of Leksell Gamma Knife surgery [Summary] => For doctors who employ conventional surgical techniques on brain tumors, risk assessment is a fact of life. They must wrestle with the knowledge that the same procedure designed to save a patient’s life exposes the patient to the risk of infection, hemorrhage, spinal fluid leakage, and adverse reaction to anesthesia.

For patients faced with the prospect of invasive brain surgery, the cost of the procedure and loss of income associated with long hospitalization and convalescence can become as large a burden as the tumor itself.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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