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How can we better identify and address adolescent self-harm risks?

It all began with paracetamol OD cases during my Covid-era paediatrics medical student clerkship, and a question about why we were seeing as many cases as we had. Grateful to KKH Children’s Emergency’s Dr Angelina Ang for guiding me in exploring the question and translating it into a study protocol that led to this piece in Annals.

iEM clerkship book: new COVID-19 chapter

One of the projects I had the pleasure of working on during my ACEP/EMRA Global Emergency Medicine Student Leadership Programme (GEMS LP) mentee year was a new chapter in the latest iEM EM Clerkship Book on COVID-19.

How has COVID-19 affected medically vulnerable patients in Singapore?

We wanted to help fill the gap of information about the effects of COVID-19 and its measures on the management of chronic conditions here. Understanding vulnerable non-COVID patients’ perceptions and experiences is an important aspect of having health systems remain vigilant and responsive to the needs of all. This also allows for the evaluation of COVID-19 related measures and can inform decisions to ensure adequate care and self-management for vulnerable non-COVID patients, who have come to be seen as casualties of an “invisible epidemic” of deprioritization.

State of preparedness: A conceptual framework for Emergency Department design in a pandemic

How can EDs function optimally when an infectious disease outbreak hits? COVID-19 spurred several EM clinicians to explore putting together a conceptual framework for ED design.

An Ocean's fury: 10 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

I travelled to Meulaboh in Aceh, Indonesia, to document the lives of survivors 10 years after the earthquake and tsunami killed hundreds of thousands in the region. I also found out how some money from Singapore given in aid to the victims has been mismanaged, with a few projects incomplete or abandoned.

Cruising in North Korea

North Korea in 2013 pinned its hopes of boosting tourism on a Singaporean-owned and -managed vessel which operated the only -- and first-ever -- commercial cruise within North Korea. I found my way over the Chinese border into the Hermit Kingdom, and took an exclusive look at the Royale Star.

More going abroad for drug fix

April 06, 2014 in the straits times

A version of this article first appeared in The Sunday Times (The Straits Times) on April 6, 2014