- Bookcover of Yeoh Ghim Seng
- Booktitle:
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Yeoh Ghim Seng
Betascript Publishing (2010-06-22 )
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- ISBN-13:
978-613-0-53771-5
- ISBN-10:
- 6130537719
- EAN:
- 9786130537715
- Book language:
- Blurb/Shorttext:
- Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yeoh Ghim Seng (June 22, 1918 – June 3, 1993) was Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore from 1970 to 1989. He received his early education at St. Michael's Institution in his hometown of Ipoh (in Malaysia) and at Penang Free School. He studied medicine at Cambridge University in the 1940s and was on attachment to hospitals there before becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1950. In 1951, he returned to Malaya to become consultant surgeon to the Singapore General Hospital. When he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the then University of Malaya in 1955, he was one of the first locals to hold that chair. He resigned the chair in 1962 to set up what became a lucrative private practice, but continued to train medical graduates from the university. A six-footer, Yeoh was described once as "the biggest but fastest Asian surgeon".
- Publishing house:
- Betascript Publishing
- Website:
- https://www.betascript-publishing.com/
- Edited by:
- Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
- Number of pages:
- 136
- Published on:
- 2010-06-22
- Stock:
- Available
- Category:
- Political science
- Price:
- 45.00 €
- Keywords:
- Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore, Cambridge University, Federation of Malaya, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Singapore General Hospital
