Many new correctional surgery techniques for spine diseases have been developed by its director, Dr. Kao-Wha Chang, vice-superintendent, who has helped the hospital to be certified by Medtronic and Stryker Corporation as the teaching facility for spine deformity correctional surgery in Asia.
[3] Taiwan Center for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery provides well-rounded weight loss programs featuring a combination of dieting, exercise routine, behavior therapy, drug cocktail treatment and surgical procedures to combat obesity.
Its director, Dr. Shih-Huang Chao, the chief consultant, is a surgeon also known for inventing the gastric clipping weight loss method (a surgical procedure that can be done in 30 minutes), which has been granted patents in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.
Created in the year 2000, with over 15 years experience and 100,000 bariatric cases, the Weight Management Center provides self-pay services that are not covered by National Health Insurance in Taiwan but remains quite popular among the ever-increasing population of overweight and obese patients around the world.
for treatment for patients with herpes zoster (shingles), anosmia (loss of smell), hyperhydrosis (extreme sweating), etc.
[5] IPC provides free interpretation services (for patient safety reasons), while services in a dozen other languages can be requested by appointment and will be provided by on-call volunteers that speak languages, ranging from English, French and Thai to Tagalog, Burmese and Hakka.
[6] Like most international medical service centers, IPC provides complimentary on-site interpretations in English and Japanese, preparing diagnosis and certification documents, translating medical documents for use after the patient returns home and simplifying financial transactions.