{"id":28524,"date":"2018-05-13T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=28524"},"modified":"2018-05-10T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T06:34:03","slug":"medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-rodelle-joy-lucion-simatupang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/05\/13\/medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-rodelle-joy-lucion-simatupang\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Professionals in Manila: Dr. Rodelle Joy Lucion-Simatupang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an expat, there are basic necessities that you need to know to have a comfortable stay in the Philippines. Apart from food, transportation means, and emergency hotlines, it is important to be aware of health services around the metro. This includes finding a physician who can help you about your health conditions as you live in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for someone who can help you with\u00a0reproductive system concerns, get to know Dr. Rodelle Joy Lucion-Simatupang.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><b>Rodelle Joy Lucion-Simatupang, MD<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Obstetrics and Gynecology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28527\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/05\/Dr-Lucion-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lucion is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist by profession, with a sub-specialty in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. She graduated with a degree in BS Medical Technology at Adventist University of the Philippines, Cavite; took her medicine proper at Remedios Trinidad Romualdez Medical Foundation in Tacloban City; had both her internship and residency training at Adventist Medical Center Manila in Pasay City; and had her fellowship training for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at Philippine Children\u2019s Medical Center in Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>As an obstetrician, Dr. Lucion deals with women before, during, and after pregnancy. As a gynecologist on the other hand, she focuses on the female reproductive issues in all ages (ranging from new born to menopause); performs papsmear; administers vaccines; treats patients with menstrual abnormalities and unusual vaginal discharge; examines and treats patients with sexually transmitted infections and other hormonal abnormalities; and treats patients with mass or cyst in the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus.\u00a0With her sub-specialty in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, she also treats congenital abnormalities in the reproductive tract of girls and performs surgeries as needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make an appointment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Medical City Clinic, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City<br \/>\nSunday and Monday: 10 am to 12 nn<\/p>\n<p>Clare\u2019s Medical Center<br \/>\nRoom 207, Dian St., Palanan Makati City<br \/>\nTuesday: 2\u00a0pm to 6 pm<br \/>\nWednesday: 2 pm to 5 pm<br \/>\nThursday: 2 pm to 4 pm<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This feature also appears on the May 2018 issue of Philippine Primer magazine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about Dr. Rodelle Lucion -Simatupang in this medical feature!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3683],"tags":[6008,6006,6005,3686,6007],"class_list":["post-28524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-feature","tag-doctor-manila","tag-female-ob-gyn-manila","tag-ob-gyn-manila","tag-ob-gyn","tag-rodelle-lucion-simatupang"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/05\/Dr-Lucion-e1525933967839.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28528,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions\/28528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}