Patient safety must come first! |
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I often write to the ST Forum to express my views on certain issues. The letters below were published in the ST Forum.
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My letters - Published in Straits Times Forum
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Title
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Date
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34
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Worrisome number of unclaimed graves at Choa Chu Kang Cemetery
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June 16, 2020
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33
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Good GPs are respected heroes
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May 25, 2017
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32
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Raise awareness of threat of superbugs
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September 22, 2016
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31
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Have single, robust accounting system for all town councils
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August 24, 2016
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30
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Everyone faces mortality differently
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August 4, 2016
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29
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Ensure seniors are not shut out of health portal
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October 31, 2015
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28
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Train doctors to get rich in love and compassion
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August 15, 2015
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27
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Nurses can raise red flag
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April 27, 2015
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26
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Why charge for simple eye tests offered free elsewhere?
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March 26, 2015
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25
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Right of appeal a boon for patients' families
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December 19, 2014
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24
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Don't be too quick to send 'borderline' patients home
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January 22, 2014
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23
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Conduct audit on doctors' fees
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July 6, 2013
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22
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Vital to learn from medical errors
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March 29, 2013
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21
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Patients who go shopping pose infection risk
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March 21, 2013
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20
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Do more to stem smoking in hospital compound
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March 11, 2013
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19
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Do more to reduce hospital-acquired infections
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March 5, 2013
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18
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Unhappy over cash surcharge for using Medisave
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August 3, 2011
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17
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Other ways to honour a donor's legacy
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April 6, 2011
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16
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Publishers flouting deposit rule
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April 2, 2009
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15
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Superbugs: Hospitals not doing enough
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March 7, 2009
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14
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Is SGH stretching itself in awareness campaign?
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August 15, 2008
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13
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Power of faith amazing but let patients decide
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November 27, 2007
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12
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Are you cut out to be an external auditor?
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November 2, 2007
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11
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TCM centre at SGH a boon to cancer patients
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October 27, 2007
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10
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Beware cancer 'entrepreneurs' and their 'magic bullets'
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September 14, 2007
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09
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Good thing she didn't listen to hospital guard
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June 21, 2007
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08
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Need for dieticians to advise cancer patients on nutrition information
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May 26, 2007
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07
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Nutrition maze - find your own dietary therapy
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May 2, 2007
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06
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New accounting standards for charities may not be helpful
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January 26, 2007
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05
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Recruiting volunteers to do charity work is an uphill task
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December 13, 2006
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04
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Help charities pay for higher audit fees
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November 4, 2006
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03
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Don't forget to help the chronic sick
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September 26, 2006
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02
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Set up a govt-run kidney dialysis centre
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July 21, 2005
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01
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Boob job may mask killer
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March 7, 2004
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