{"id":39839,"date":"2019-02-12T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=39839"},"modified":"2019-02-14T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:24:13","slug":"medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-benjamin-luna-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-benjamin-luna-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Professionals in Manila: Dr. Benjamin Luna, Jr."},"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\u00a0with your health conditions while you&#8217;re living in the country.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for someone who can give quality health care and advice to make your heart on top health,\u00a0 Dr. Benjamin Luna, Jr. of Asian Hospital and Medical Center is the one you should see.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Benjamin Luna, Jr., MD<\/strong><\/span><strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong><em>Internal Medicine (IM) &#8212; Adult Cardiology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40045\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Benjamin-Luna-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For Dr. Benjamin Luna, Jr., it was always his calling to be a doctor despite the sacrifices in the process. Dr Luna believes that it is a great privilege to be a medical professional as people trust him with their lives. He enjoys talking to his patients. He treats them gently, with utmost diplomacy and always with a touch of good old-fashioned humor.<\/p>\n<p>Practicing cardiology for almost 28 years now, Dr Luna usually deals with people who consult him for hypertension, chest pain, coronary artery, disease, heart failure, and diabetes. He is currently the program director of the Asian Cardiovascular Institute at Asian Hospital and Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Make an appointment:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asian Hospital and Medical Center<br \/>\n<\/strong>Asian Cardiovascular Institute<br \/>\nAlabang, Muntinlupa City<br \/>\nDaily: By appointment<br \/>\nContact: 02-771-9000 loc. 5748<\/p>\n<p>Room 210, 2\/F Medical Office Building<br \/>\nTuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays: 1 pm to 4 pm<br \/>\nContact: 02-771-9245\/0921-225-9460<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This first appeared on Philippine Primer English Magazine\u2019s February 2019 issue.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking for someone who can give quality health care and advice to make your heart on top health,  Dr. Benjamin Luna, Jr. of Asian Hospital and Medical Center is the one you should see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3683],"tags":[8165,8164,8163,4357,6293],"class_list":["post-39839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-feature","tag-benjamin-luna","tag-cardiologist-in-manila","tag-cardiology","tag-md","tag-medical-professionals-in-manila"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Benjamin-Luna-e1549953814197.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39839","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=39839"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40235,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39839\/revisions\/40235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}