early detection

PREVENTION IS CHEAPER AND LESS PAINFUL THAN CURE

Senior citizens getting ready for an early morning exercise session at Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur Remember those proverbs that our primary school English teacher used to drum into us? “Prevention is better than cure”, “A stitch in time saves nine”, and “Penny wise, Pound foolish”? Yet how many of us pay heed to these cautionary […]

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PART II: GETTING THE BEST MEDICAL CARE

Singapore: Monday 23 June. Things started moving fast as soon as I arrived at Moon’s apartment at 3.00pm. Half an hour later, Moon and I were in the clinic of an old family friend, Dr Lim Kian Peng, a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. After viewing my scan results, he immediately made

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