Dr Tan Shu Yun, Dr Ong Wah Ying, Dr Wong Pei Lin, Dr. Tan Hsien Yung
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I wanted to be a doctor who is trained to manage a wide array of conditions instead of being confined to just one segment of the population or a certain disease spectrum./ I found that I did not have a burning inclination towards any one particular specialty. Added to that, I was not convinced that I would be happy limiting myself to a narrow field of medicine.
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I have always wondered why specialty training requires one to pay in sweat and hours as if the more nights you spent away from your family or the longer the shifts are without sleep will somehow make you a better doctor.
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The public sector is where the poorest of the poor, the vulnerable and the needy could be seen in their time of need. This is the raison d’etre for my wanting to be a doctor in the first place.
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It was not all plain sailing in the initial months. The seemingly endless waves of patients day after day would sometimes overwhelm. The threat of burnout always looms on the sidelines. Temptation would come in the form of job offers from the private sector. The lure of better financial security would beckon at times.
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This joy is often shared over lunch with clinic colleagues where camaraderie is often built up
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I try to find opportunities to engender positive changes in behaviour and attitudes
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the GP as a trusted resource can tie things up wholistically for the patient’s betterment/ GP work is bread and butter medicine. Mundane as it sometimes may be, it has a vital role to play in the community offering first line one-stop shop for healthcare at an affordable rate.
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Each visit is not a rushed affair so that effective therapeutics can be delivered.
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What I hope to do here is not only to ensure that the needs of those who come to us are met, but also to inspire many more that some may either join us or partner with us as we travel the final leg of the patient’s journey.
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Using a team-based approach, we aim to optimise their various comorbidities which may have been overlooked previously, achieve greater compliance in treatment and disease prevention by empowering the patients in their disease management.
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We will also free up time for clinician scientists so that they can pursue cutting edge research and translate their discoveries to improve the care of our patients. / Well trained generalists should step forward to integrate the right direction of holistic care, instead of abandoning them to the whims of a fragmented health care system.
