Monthly Archives: May 2003

Sars and the gynae

26 May 2003
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Last Wednesday, a nurse from Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) wrote in to the Forum page of The Straits Times to complain that her gynaecologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital did not want to see her when she arrived to keep an appointment with him.  The nurse said that she was very upset and “felt discriminated…

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When children commit suicide

19 May 2003
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Just when I am relishing being alive on this good earth exactly 45 years after my birth, along comes a stark reminder that this fragile thing called life may not be sweet-tasting to some others who would rather end it all at a tender age than choose to grow old. I was jolted into silence…

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