Dr Lee Wei Ling speaking at an international seminar on Dec 28, 1989. From 2006 to 2016, Dr Lee Wei Ling penned about 160 columns in The Straits Times and The Sunday Times. Her topics ranged from personal reflections growing up as the daughter of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding prime minister, to her work as director of the National Neuroscience Institute and her views on national policies.
In 2016, 75 of her columns were compiled into a best-selling book, A Hakka Woman’s Singapore Stories, published by Straits Times Press. Dr Lee, a paediatric neurologist specialising in epilepsy, died on Oct 9 at the age of 69 . She revealed in 2020 that she had been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare, degenerative brain disease.
Below are five of her columns published in The Sunday Times and The Straits Times. In 2016, 75 of her columns were compiled into a best-selling book, A Hakka Woman’s Singapore Stories, published by Straits Times Press. PHOTO: STRAIT TIMES PRESS 1.
My patients, my teachers Published on Dec 21, 2008 In 1983, I was training as a neurology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, the premier Harvard-affiliated hospital that some termed “Man’s Greatest Hospital”. This was where the rich and powerful came to seek medical treatment. It was where Dr Henry Kissinger, for instance, had the triple heart bypass that saved his life.
I was doing a six-month posting in the neurophysiology laboratory. By sending small electric shocks down ne.
