A decade ago, Marcus Gadau was bedridden with chronic back pain due to a hole in his lung. The 16-year-old could never have imagined his agony would see him leave his home in Germany to study a...
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12 May 2013
A shortage of human cadavers for the city's medical schools has been eased by an unusual offer - free scattering of your ashes when you die if you agree to donate your body for study.
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8 Apr 2013
Chinese medicine is gaining worldwide acceptance. In fact, in Hong Kong, there are over 50 modernised Chinese medicine clinics employing registered practitioners, and the Hospital Authority's 16...
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4 Mar 2013
The medical faculty receives only three to five donated corpses each year. Many of the 20 corpses needed for research and autopsy training come from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department...
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13 Aug 2012
Doctors at public hospitals are being offered fast-track promotions and extra cash for emergency ward duty to stop their exodus to the private sector.
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25 Jul 2012
A family tragedy led Zhang Jing, 30, into medicine. Her grandfather in Shandong died of a heart attack and could have been saved if someone in the family had recognised the symptoms.
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Each year I receive several requests for reference letters in support of students' applications for internships and summer jobs. A summer internship allows students to check out a career path that...
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The discussion on limited registration for Hong Kong citizens who have trained in respected medical schools abroad has gone quiet but it has not and must not be allowed to go away.
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Young doctors are increasingly turning away from the more important fields of medical science to embrace the easier and more lucrative areas of plastic surgery and anaesthesiology.
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A scheme by private doctors to alleviate a shortage of 200 medics in public hospitals and head off the employment of foreign-trained doctors has been a disappointment. Medical Association...
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When a young Hong Kong-born neurosurgeon from a pre-eminent medical school in Britain cannot practise in Hong Kong, you know something is rotten in the state of the medical profession here.
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Many local doctors who spent half their life in school to qualify for their licence to practise medicine think they have the God-given right to milk the system for the rest of their lives.
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