Goodness not grief : autobiography of Yean Leng Lim, Australia, China, Singapore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Yanling, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cardiologists--Fiction.

Cardiologists.

Cardiologists--Singapore--Biography.

Cardiologists--Australia--Biography.

Lin, Yanling, 1948-.

Lin, Yanling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Century Publishing Corporation, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A biography of the author''s background which provides insight into his training in medicine and his opinions on the concepts and training that are necessary to be a good doctor. The aims of this book are to first show how coronary angioplasty was pioneered in Australia, Singapore and China. Second, it is to illustrate the founding of a long-awaited medical school in Xiamen, China where the author''s ancestors originate. Third, it is to describe the reformation of healthcare, cardiology, medical research and Art academy in Singapore. Fourth, it is to demonstrate the vision and realization of t

Contents:

Portrait of the Author by Cheong Soo-Pieng; Preface; Preface by BG George Yeo; Preface by Richard Larkins; Foreword to Chinese Edition ; Preface to the Chinese Edition of Dr Lim's Autobiography Goodness Not Grief; Acknowledgement; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Early Years; Better Future in Nanyang; Extraordinary Parents from Ordinary Backgrounds; 'Yean Leng'; Learning English from the King James Bible; Chinese Calligraphy and Medicine; Catholic High School's 'Sistine Chapel'; Boiled 'Phoenix' Flowers to Cure Asthma; Beautiful China; Youngest Art Graduate

'Memories of the Lovely Dreams of Youth'Life's First Turning Point; The Vow to Train Better Doctors; Omega Watch, a Symbol of Love; Lim Koon Yaw Memorial Scholarship; Chapter 2 Vow to be a Doctor; The 'Lucky Country' Down-Under; 'Going to the Hospital to Die!'; Narrow Escape for a 'Singaporean Son'; My Singapore Story; Cultural Shocks; A Renaissance Man; Early Interest in Cardiovascular Physiology; Lesson in Scientific Writing; Violin and the National Heart Foundation Student Scholarship; The Three Queens of Queen Victoria Hospital; 'Look After Miss Ma'; Marriage Proposal in Taipei

'Worthy of His Calling''I Think She's Dead'; 'You've Tried Hard'; Joy in Australia; Iefan - 'Surpassing the Ordinary'; PhD Research in Pregnancy Hypertension; Training of a Cardiologist; From Nuclear Cardiology to PTCA; 'I am a Butcher!'; Reviving Albert Tucker; First Private Cardiovascular Unit in Melbourne; Interventional Cardiology Training and the Epworth Connection; New Cardiac Centre in Melbourne's East; New Cardiovascular Centre in Melbourne's West; From HC to VIC to MVIC; Chapter 3 A Good Doctor; Cushing's Four Portraits of a Good Doctor; Healing with Science and Humanism

Doctor, 'Docrat' or 'Dr Death'Ethics - Cornerstone of a Doctor; Basic Healthcare Assurance; Inaccessible and Unaffordable Healthcare; Lim's Ward Round; 'Treat Patients not Lesions'; The 'Alabama Student'; The 'Hudson-Taylor Spirit'; 'How Would You Treat This Patient If She Were Your Mother?'; Chapter 4 Goodness not Grief; Doctor Eyes China with Heart; First Visit to China; 'This Foreigner Speaks Pu-tong Hua'; The Story of 'A Foolish Old Man Moving the Mountain'; Australia China Indonesia Singapore (ACIS) Heart Foundation; Hangzhou Fellows; First PTCAs in Hangzhou; 'British Girl Chinese Wife'

'Duncan Main of Hangchow'Hangzhou and Beyond; A 'Small' Hospital; Australian Steak Against Radiation Harm; Coronary Stenting without X-ray; The Wei-wei Story of Guangzhou; 'I want to learn Interventional Cardiology from you' ; Hands-on Training in Coronary Interventional Cardiology for Overseas Doctors; Unwitting Business Partner; 'To Live' but with Boomerang instead of Aeroplane; Osler and the Peking Union Medical College; Beijing Medical License for Foreign Doctors; Returning to China When I Can Walk Again; 'Three Wise Men of Christmas' at Dunhuang; 'Goodness not Grief '; 'Tao Li Fen Fang'

Following Father's Footseps (Zi Chen Fu Yue).

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 18, 2014).

ISBN:

1-938134-42-7