OON Chiew Seng 温秋成
Medical Services in Singapore,
Accession Number 002003
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 7
Total Reels
- Patricia Lee
Interviewer
- 03:19:29
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 7
Metadata
- 5 Mar 1998
Recording Date
- 00:28:30
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Born 1916, Penang. Family Background. Events leading to the reading of medicine. How she switched from nursing to medicine. Attended King Edward VII College of Medicine in July 1941. How the war affected her studies. Escape to India. Coping with life in India. How she was accepted by Bombay University for pre-admission to medical school. Took loan from Malayan Commission to study. Difficult journey from Bombay to New Delhi.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 7
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- 5 Mar 1998
Recording Date
- 00:29:55
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Attended Lady Harding Medical School from 1943 to 1946 in New Delhi. Return to College of Medicine in 1946. Shuttling between hospital and hostel. Comparisons between medical school in New Delhi and in Singapore. Medical career after graduation in 1948. How she became a Medical Officer first and thereafter a Houseman. First posting to Kandang Kerbau Hospital (KKH) from 1948 to 1951. Postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1953 to 1955. Disagreement with Dr Sindha.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 7
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- 5 Mar 1998
Recording Date
- 00:29:18
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Reasons for leaving the public service. Her experiences working with Prof Mekie as compared to Dr Sindha and Dr Monteiro. How she single-handedly set-up her private clinic (Armenian Street) in 1959. Dependence on Military Anaesthetist. Description of the operations conducted at Armenian Street.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 7
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- 5 Mar 1998
Recording Date
- 00:29:51
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- MP3
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Cases of deaths and near-death incidents. How the matron embezzled the clinic's funds. Disagreement with her partners. Location of her clinics at Liat Towers and Mount Elizabeth from 1967 to 1977 and 1979 to 1991, respectively. Problems encountered as a private practitioner. Description of a car telephone where patients could contact her in the 1960s. Definition of the role between obstetricians and midwives in Kandang Kerbau Hospital (KKH).
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Reel/Disc 5 of 7
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- 18 May 1998
Recording Date
- 00:30:04
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Her last drawn salary before she left Kandang Kerbau Hospital (KKH). How her bosses "pocketed" from the cases she delivered and operated on. Views on abortion. How abortion was being carried out in the 1950s. How she went against all odds to discourage people from sterilisation. Views on the Family Planning Policy. Involvement in voluntary work since retirement in 1991.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 7
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- 18 May 1998
Recording Date
- 00:31:21
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Motivations, rewards and frustrations doing voluntary work. Types of work among the elderly. Involvement with the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society. Various regional and international congresses that were organised. Short description of what took place during the Hock Lee Bus Riot and the racial riots in the 1960s. Friendship with the late Prof Benjamin Sheares.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 7
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- 18 May 1998
Recording Date
- 00:20:30
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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What she perceived as the significant milestones in the development of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (O & G) in Singapore. How the late Benjamin Sheares became the first local to obtain entry as a Member of the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (MRCOG). Tribute to Prof S S Ratnam for internationalising Singapore O & G. Views on future trend of O & G in Singapore. Shared about the stress of being an O & G Specialist.
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