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Mr Chua Kee Huat has a shared care arrangement for managing his rheumatoid arthritis where he alternates between seeing his family physician and his specialist, Dr Anita Lim (in red), a senior consultant at National University Hospital. With them is Keat Hong Family Medicine's Dr Kok Zi Yin, who said family doctors tend to manage patients from a "broader" perspective.
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Seventy-year-old Chua Kee Huat was due for his half-yearly consultation for rheumatoid arthritis at the National University Hospital (NUH) in March.
Instead, Mr Chua headed to Frontier Family Medicine Clinic in Clementi to do a blood test and collect his medication, as the consultation was rescheduled to this month because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
