I am forty-four. Even allowing for the decade or so that modern medicine has added to our Biblical three score years and ten, I am, statistically, over half way through the journey. There are times when I feel it. Not so much physically: never having been much of an athlete the decline of my body has been too gradual to offend much more than my vanity. But there is something I have noticed that I do regret: a slow shrinking or withdrawal of my capacity for wonder; a retreating sense of the sheer marvellous strangeness of life. It feels like a significant loss. more…

Last week I attended the 29th Asian Medical Students’ Conference (AMSC) in Tokyo along with 450 other medical students like me from 20 countries in Asia and Pacific. Our aim: to fight non-communicable diseases and promote a healthy lifestyle in the Asia and Pacific. more…