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Alice Dueñas - The Cheer Leader
73-year-old Alice Dueñas is one of the most vibrant people you could ever meet. This retired businesswoman and mother of nine talks about anything with passion—smiling, cracking jokes, highlighting the positive at all times. You would never think that such a sunny character could have gone through a staggering share of tragedy, but the truth is that Alice has survived quite a few grave trials in her life. The key word is survive—no matter what daunting task lay before her, Alice overcame it with spunk and self-belief.
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Anna Rosario Poco - Feeling Whole Again
In November 2006, 47-year-old Anna Rosario Poco underwent a mastectomy at The Medical City (TMC). The president of a financing company had felt a lump in her left breast, and it was found to be stage-3 breast cancer, with a tumor that had already spread to her skin and lymph nodes. When she woke up after the operation, she couldn’t help but break into tears—there was only a scarred cavity where her breast used to be.
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Corazon Bautista - Synergy at TMC
Corazon Bautista is chairman and founder of Global Care, a company which hires Filipino nurses for jobs at the largest and most advanced hospitals in the United States. At the same time, she is a steadfast client of The Medical City’s (TMC) Center for Wellness and Aesthetics, and actively encourages her State-side peers to visit TMC for their health care needs. Nonetheless, she doesn’t see her advocacy of the hospital as a conflict of interest at all.
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Michee and Giuliana Cadhit - A Part of the Family
When Michee Cadhit gave birth to her third child, Giuliana, in 2006, the pediatrician had immediate concerns.
“She noticed that Ianna’s ears were a bit low-set, a characteristic almost always associated with a genetic disorder,” Michee says.
The nursery staff had also informed them that she was a particularly quiet baby, seemingly undisturbed by the wails of the other newborns around her. Her own cries, in turn, were barely audible. The pediatrician then referred Michee to Dr. Carmencita Padilla, a geneticist at The Medical City (TMC), and insisted that Ianna get further testing.
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Jayden Ogo - Heart and Home
Being a new mother is a memorable experience for any woman, but Krystal Ogo’s first few weeks with her son Jayden were definitely out of the ordinary, and taught this brave 17-year-old the importance of being with family, whether at home in her native Guam or across the sea.
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Pablito Argallon - The Patient Partner
Pablito Argallon started out as a bookkeeper in Guam back in the 60’s—humble beginnings for a man who is now executive sales associate for a major automotive company. It was Lito’s first employer who urged him to get into sales, sensing an openness and initiative within his young employee that would definitely bode well with customers.
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Dr. Allan Evangelista - Regenerative Medicine: Being Your Own Healer
While a heart that heals itself sounds like a superhero power, forever limited to comic book pages and wild imaginings, it is, in fact, a reality here and now. With the rise of Regenerative Medicine, new opportunities gleam for those who suffer from severe ailments of the heart.
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Flora Sese: Smart and Steadfast
Flora Sese has been a loyal patient of The Medical City (TMC) since the 1970s, witnessing first-hand its evolution into one of the country’s top health care facilities. When she decided to have her periodic medical check-up in 2009, she had it done in TMC.
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Joyce Reyes: Getting Back to Sleep
Marie Joyce Reyes was living a normal, happy life, focusing her energies on her family and her job at a government bank, when she began to have difficulty breathing in her sleep in 2008.
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Mikki Jan Porciuncula: Looking Forward to Life
As a medical sales representative in Pampanga, Mikki Porciuncula has been immersed in the health care industry for many years—a fortunate fact when he experienced a very serious health problem four years ago.
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