“I'm running away as far as I can,” I shouted. I slammed the door and left home, not knowing where I was really going. I took the public bus as far as I could go and made a tour of Kowloon, the northern peninsula section of Hong Kong. A few hours later, tired and hungry with nothing really to do,…

Have you heard of the classic TV series “Untouchables”? After medical school I was in basic training mostly at the Queen Mary Hospital of the University of Hong Kong. After that, I was destined for America. That was unusual at the time since most Hong Kong graduate doctors went to the United Kingdom for further training. After all we were then…

There is a classical Chinese expression, “within the four seas, we are one family, shihaiyijia,” traditionally indicating the family of those with Chinese ethnicity, but at times expressing that all races are one family, onejia, in a more “magnanimous” gesture. Except there is one race of Chinese actually called KeJia, who have been historically outside this jia because they were…

Since early childhood I felt the call to be involved in some way in medical missions. As time went on, even as I became more and more involved in local ministry and the academic life, the pull continued. In 1989, just prior to the June 4 incident in China, I was privileged to lead a team of 20 from Cincinnati, USA on a medical mission to southern China in an area not too far from my ancestral village. 2 weeks later, as we were leaving the beautiful farm lands, I watched the farmers at hard work stooping over their rice paddies. I realized that I was looking at myself. From that moment, I made a promise that I would return and do what I could. Over the years, indeed I was given many opportunities to bring medical teams into rural areas of China.

URS “Ideas are Cheap, Show me the Data” Reggie 叔叔的故事：想法是廉价的，给我看看数据 (Sonic 翻译) I’ve always enjoyed taking young doctors on ward rounds, and teaching and talking with them about medicine, their patient, or life. At times, some young enterprising doctor would make a sensible suggestion about what could be done to improve patient care. I would compliment her, then often challenge…