More Than Just Counting Pills
Evangeline Chai
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Evangeline Chai
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Kaitlyn Tay
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A perspective piece from a Lego® Serious Play® facilitator: Dr. Goh Mei Ching
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Some trips are itineraries. Others become gentle mirrors. This was the latter. When I boarded the plane to Vienna, I didn’t quite realise how much this trip would end up being a balm — to my weary body, and my quietly bruised heart. Over the last few years, life has
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The quiet weight of meaning in Medicine
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Beyond the Clinical Chaos Emergency medicine is defined by urgency—rapid decisions, life-saving interventions, and intense human encounters. But beneath this clinical intensity lies a quieter reality: how those on the frontlines process what they witness and find meaning in their work. For four clinicians at Changi General Hospital'
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I first met Associate Professor Cheong Pak Yean when I was a medical student, assigned to shadow a GP for my clinical attachment. I was fortunate beyond measure that it was him – the same family doctor my parents had taken me to when I was sick as a teenager. Little
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Some stories are too fragile to be told in words. Some emotions too heavy to carry alone. And sometimes, the best way to understand an experience is to shape it with your hands. That’s what Being Shaped: VESSELS is about. From February 10–14, 2025, at KKH Auditorium Foyer,
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There was a woman who was unmarried and didn’t have many visitors. I was asked to “help her with her pain and swelling.” When I went to visit her, a nurse warned me that she was difficult to engage. I thought, “Of course she’s difficult to engage; it’
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