{
  "id": 12291818,
  "title": "Experiencing double inpatient surgeries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/experiencing-double-inpatient-surgeries-12291818",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-06T03:47:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/20261006/experiencing-double-inpatient-surgeries"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "At the age of 84, I underwent two consecutive hospital stays at the Korea University Anam Hospital (KUAH) for the first time in my life. The first surgery was a routine urology procedure to remove a cystoscopy tumor from my urinary bladder, performed on July 12, 2024. This operation lasted for an hour and I remained in the hospital for five days. This date coincidentally fell just before the assassination attempt on then presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The second surgery was a more complex thyroid operation, done on August 28, 2026, to assess the size of a tumor attached to my left adrenal gland. The aim was to determine if it was benign or malignant. This procedure took three hours and I spent a week in the hospital afterward. During my extended stays, I was able to catch up on world events, including the flash flood disaster in Nepal that occurred two days after the second surgery.",
  "summary": "Despite being in my mid-80s, I have consecutively been hospitalized at the Korea University Anam Hospital (KUAH) over two-year interval for the first time in my lifetime. One was a conventional urology surgery where a cystoscopy tumor was detected. The other was thyroid surgery to check the diameter of a tumor attached to my left adrenal gland to determine whether it was benign or malignant. The…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Experiencing double inpatient surgeries",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/experiencing-double-inpatient-surgeries",
        "published": "2026-10-06T03:12:03.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}