I am feeling so compelled to blog now, because I have seen someone's effort being recognised after 18 years.

If you would read today, 12th May 2009's The Straits Times article at page A9, you would see this doctor with a warm smile. To many out there he might be unfamiliar to you but for me, he is sort of my family's main doctor for almost 12 years and counting.

I totally agree with the article's content. Dr Koh seriously never overcharges and in good times and bad, it still remains the same. Sometimes he never even charges mum for some minor consultation which other doctors in many clinics would have. No this is not a sweeping statement, I have experienced it myself. For the past 12 years, we can safely rely on his medicine. Whatever other doctors give, he prescribes the same, but at a much lesser cost for sure.

Well I am not siding him because he charges much lesser than other clinics out there, but he really is a doctor with the spirit of one in him. We dont expect landslide cheap rates, but at the very least we hope to be charged reasonably. And at the current downturn, he could have still charged the same as per normal, but he felt for those suffering out there. And I think this just amplifies the good of the religion and to me I feel that he has brought honour in the name of God. Seldom do we see such cases of good doctors around who would lend a helping hand and as what he said,

"As a doctor, I want to be one who can hopefully make them well - but definitely not make them poor"

Im in awe of this sentence.

Many see being in the medical field as a gateway to the 5Cs. Well though Dr Koh drives a Volvo and lives in a semi-D, Im perfectly fine with it! Afterall, nobody said a doctor must be those like we always see in the movies, wearing ragged clothes, carrying a backpack and moving around treating patients. So long as he does the right thing a doctor should be doing according to conscience. Then again people say how do you measure conscience, well, when you were born, God had already etched the answer deep down in your heart. =)

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling - 1 Peter 4:8-9