Dr Richard Teo Keng Siang's story @
www.heavenaddress.com/Dr-Richard-Teo-Keng-Siang/424153/379719/content
A very meaningful speech by Late Dr Richard Teo, R.I.P.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLkfADe17s
张庆祥医生 - 关于生活，财富，成功及幸福的几点思考 （中文字幕）
What really brought me joy in the last 10 months was interaction
with people, my loved ones, friends, people who genuinely care
about me, they laugh and cry with me, and they are able to identify
the pain and suffering I was going through.
I was being trained as a doctor, to be compassionate, to be able
to empathise; but I couldn't.
As a house officer posted to the oncology department at NUH,
every day, every other day I witness death in the cancer
department.
When I see how they suffered, I see all the pain they went
through.
I see all the morphine they have to press every few minutes just
to relieve their pain. I see them struggling with their oxygen
breathing their last breath and all.
But it was just a job. I do it, I get out of the ward, I can't
wait to get home, I do my own stuff.
I did not know how they feel, not until I became a patient. And,
if you ask me, would I have been a very different doctor if I were
to re-live my life now, I can tell you, yes I will. Because I truly
understand how the patients feel now. And sometimes, you have to
learn it the hard way.