Volume 30, Number 2

March 2001

34th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine/Combined Medical and Dental Scientific Meeting—3 to 6 August 2000

The Singapore–Malaysia Congress of Medicine is now well into its 34th year. The meeting has certainly grown in strength irrespective of the presence or...

The Runme Shaw Memorial Lecture 2000—Treating VIPs in Washington

My lecture is about people, power, illness, and the patient-physician relationship. It is the personality of the politician or official, the ego elevation conferred...

15th Gordon Arthur Ransome Oration: A Journey of Care—Mission Impossible?

I am deeply honoured by the invitation to deliver the 15th Sir Gordon Arthur Ransome Oration. This article is available only as a PDF. Please...

11th Chapter of Surgeons Lecture—The Art of Letting Go

These observations were made by a Persian mathematician some 900 years ago. His sentiments are self-evident but no less easy to accept especially for...

5th Yahya Cohen Lecture: Angiosomes and Extension of Skin Flaps—Anatomic Study and Clinical Implications

I would like to express my gratitude to the Chapter of Surgeons and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore for the honour of presenting this...