{"id":31033,"date":"2018-07-13T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=31033"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T06:52:03","slug":"medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-ruth-francisco-alejandro-makati-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-ruth-francisco-alejandro-makati-medical-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Professionals in Manila: Dr. Ruth Francisco-Alejandro"},"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 with your health conditions as you live in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for someone who can give quality health care to your children, get to know Dr. Ruth Francisco-Alejandro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruth Margaret Francisco-Alejandro, MD<\/strong><em><br \/>\nPediatrics<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31035\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Dr-Alejandro-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alejandro is a pediatrician and has been practicing for 15 years. She earned her pre-medical degree from the University of the Philippines and her\u00a0degree in Medicine from the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>A typical day for Dr. Alejandro starts with conducting rounds before holding her clinic. Despite the unavoidable communication barriers of having babies and children as patients, Dr. Alejandro loves being a pediatrician because of the sense of fulfillment brought about by helping others overcome their illness.<\/p>\n<p>Watching her patients from infants to teenagers is also rewarding. For aspiring doctors, Dr. Alejandro advises them to be completely sure before taking a medical degree. Although it has been said many times before, she reiterates that medicine is more of a vocation than a profession.<\/p>\n<p>Make an appointment:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Makati Medical Center<br \/>\n<\/strong>Room 127 Amorsolo St., Cor. Dela Rosa St., Makati City<br \/>\nMondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays: \u00a010 am to 12 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>St. Luke\u2019s Medical Center Global City<br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong>Room 723 MAB<br \/>\nMondays: 3 pm to 6 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays: 11 am to 1 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>The Japanese Association Manila, Inc.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong>The Medical Clinic<br \/>\n23\/F Trident Tower, 312 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Salcedo Village, Makati City<br \/>\nContact: 02-818-1880 \/ 02-819-2762<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Francisco-Alejandro is a pediatrician who has been practicing for 15 years. Get to know more about her in this feature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3683],"tags":[188,6537,3966,6539,6400,6538],"class_list":["post-31033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-feature","tag-inc","tag-makati-medical-center","tag-pediatrics","tag-ruth-francisco-alejandro","tag-st-lukes-medical-center","tag-the-japanese-association-manila"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Dr-Alejandro-e1531448250704.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31033","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=31033"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31096,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31033\/revisions\/31096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}