NUS medicine student wins prestigious global prize for poem on encounter with elderly end-stage cancer patient

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SINGAPORE — During her 10-week general surgery posting to a hospital in 2020, Ms Faye Ng Yu Ci, who was then in her third year of medical training, met an elderly man in his seventies, who was suffering from end-stage colorectal cancer.

Ms Faye Ng Yu Ci, who was then in her third year of medical training, met an elderly man in his seventies, who was suffering from end-stage colorectal cancer.

She is donating all the prize money of US$500 , to the NUH Children's Fund, which provides financial assistance to needy patients of the Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children’s Medical Institute at the National University Hospital. Ms Ng, who submitted her poem to the journal last year, was shocked when she received an email informing her that she had won the prize.

After Ms Ng completed her general surgery posting, she has since not been able to again meet the"uncle" who inspired her poem. Dr Michael LaCombe, associate editor of Annals of Internal Medicine and editor of the poetry section of the journalDespite having an interest in literature during her time at Hwa Chong Institution, Ms Ng took on more science subjects because she wanted to pursue medicine in university.

 

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