Career

Since we are talking about the change in specialty in the middle of a career, it seems appropriate to re-tell a story that I heard from my colleague CB.

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Y graduated as the top student from his medical school. In addition to a superb brain, he had a pair of gifted hands, which made him an ideal surgeon - the dream that he had ever since he entered the university.

After internship, he found a post of trainee surgeon in a peripheral hospital - partly because he wished to serve the poor people by working in a place with Christian background, partly because the surgical department of his medical school was too high-flying for a pragmatic doctor like him.

In a few years, he worked extra hard and fulfilled the training in FRCS. (That's some 25 years ago, long before the Hong Kong College was established.) Everything seemed fine, until one fine day he noted himself having tea-colour urine.

He looked into the mirror; his eyes were two pieces of lemon.