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Hospital staff who help patients find jobs receive Healthcare Humanity Award

Healthcare Humanity Award winners (from left) Yvette Choo, senior occupational therapist from Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and Yishun Community Hospital; Heidi Tan, senior principal occupational therapist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Tess Hng, TTSH principal medical social worker; and Chella Sim, senior medical social worker with KTPH and YCH.
Healthcare Humanity Award winners (from left) Yvette Choo, senior occupational therapist from Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and Yishun Community Hospital; Heidi Tan, senior principal occupational therapist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Tess Hng, TTSH principal medical social worker; and Chella Sim, senior medical social worker with KTPH and YCH.

Aesthetic doctor injected woman with excessive dermal fillers, causing long-term side effects

Dr Isaac Wong Kai Jie had been imposed with interim orders since Aug 26. Photo screengrab from THE ARTISAN GROUP.
Dr Isaac Wong Kai Jie had been imposed with interim orders since Aug 26. Photo screengrab from THE ARTISAN GROUP.

Doctors Without Borders worker contracts Ebola in Congo, evacuated to Netherlands

The aid worker’s infection underscores the risks in an epidemic that has sickened hundreds of medical personnel.
The aid worker’s infection underscores the risks in an epidemic that has sickened hundreds of medical personnel.

AI is ‘better informed’ than doctors, US health secretary Kennedy says

US Vice-President J.D. Vance and US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington on Sept 29.
US Vice-President J.D. Vance and US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington on Sept 29.

Forum: Ensure measures to protect healthcare staff have real teeth

Forum: Stricter laws won’t pit patients against healthcare workers

Aesthetic doctor under restrictions can’t perform dermal filler procedures after client complaint

Isaac Wong Kai Jie, founder and medical director of The Artisan Clinic in Paragon shopping mall, has been subject to interim orders since Aug 26.
Isaac Wong Kai Jie, founder and medical director of The Artisan Clinic in Paragon shopping mall, has been subject to interim orders since Aug 26.

A hospital death can be a good death

Sometimes intensive care is the right place to care for a dying patient, says the writer.
Sometimes intensive care is the right place to care for a dying patient, says the writer.

AI made me a better doctor. It may be making doctors-in-training worse

Current doctors-to-be may be the most adversely affected generation when it comes to AI.
Current doctors-to-be may be the most adversely affected generation when it comes to AI.

Forum: When patients use both Western medicine and TCM, judgment matters more than blanket bans

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