While most Chinese aunties think I'm in my 20's, one particular patient (a 16 year old boy) at my old hospital actually thought I was younger than him! I grew up watching the series Doogie Howser MD but I didn't think my young patient is old enough to have watched that show.
I knew something was amiss when during ward rounds he kept addressing himself as "abang" and called me "adik", but because I was his doctor, I became "Doktor Adik".
He was finishing chemo when I left the hospital & I never got to tell him that doktor adik is actually doktor kakak. But I guess some truths are better left unknown :)
I knew something was amiss when during ward rounds he kept addressing himself as "abang" and called me "adik", but because I was his doctor, I became "Doktor Adik".
He was finishing chemo when I left the hospital & I never got to tell him that doktor adik is actually doktor kakak. But I guess some truths are better left unknown :)
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