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Dr Ngiam is an associate consultant at KKH Department of Child Development. She has clinical experience both in the public and private healthcare sectors, as well as the experience of being a mother of 3 children. She has been doodling and drawing comics since her primary school days. Eco-Anxious

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Narratives I Inherited: In Defense of Anecdotes

I attended Professor Brian Hurwitz’s talk at the Singapore Medical Humanities Conference last week. He spoke about anecdotes — those small, personal stories that seem trivial at first, yet somehow stay with us longer than the data ever does. It struck me that so much of our life in medicine

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Who Gets to Tell the Story?

The patient was already in the cubicle when I arrived. Fifty-eight years old, cirrhosis, ascites, confusion — the ED notes had been written in the familiar clipped tones of medical shorthand. His sister stood at his bedside, anxious, hovering like someone who had already told this story many times that

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