I'm an anaesthetist from Singapore. This is where I write — occasionally — about the art and science of medicine, and share what I've found useful along the way.
Through my writing, I hope to help my juniors, surgeons, and patients better understand why I do what I do.
Outside the theatre, I think about compounding — in health, wealth, and relationships. Long horizons, small disciplines. Ignore the noise in between.
My clinical practice is shaped by two Japanese ideas I return to often: shokunin 職人 — the craftsman's devotion to mastery — and shoshin 初心 — beginner's mind, held deliberately. Taken together, they describe a way of working that I find true and worth aiming at, even if I will never fully arrive.
A slow-burn collection of short posts, organised in three strands: musings on the surgeon and patient experience, the road to mastery for juniors honing their craft, and clinicals — regional anaesthesia, airway, POCUS, enhanced recovery.
Notes, frameworks, and viva templates for the MMed (Anaesthesia) — focused on Part B and Part C. Built for structured thinking under time pressure, not as compressed textbooks.
Best reached by email. I reply when I can — usually between lists, sometimes not for a few days.
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