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I was among those privileged to be taught by Professor Saing as a
medical student and then as a junior doctor in Myanmar long before he
left for Hong Kong.
He was already an eminent and respected surgeon but exceptional in
that his knowledge of basic sciences was accurate to the minutest detail
as would be expected of an expert in those subjects. At the same time he
knew how to explain those facts in a language that would be equally
comprehensible to the most junior of medical students and nurses right up
to and including his consultant colleagues.
His accompanying demeanour was always of somebody reminding us of
things we already knew, never of a teacher handing down information to an
ignorant student (even if it was obvious to us and to him that it was the
first time we had ever heard of it).
Despite all this, he was never known to make a derogatory remark
against anybody, colleague or otherwise. He was the perfect example that
it is absolutely possible to reach the zenith of your chosen career yet
remain humble and chivalrous. The two do go together because "the taller
the bamboo grows, the lower it bends".
Professor Harry Saing
Sir,
I was among those privileged to be taught by Professor Saing as a
medical student and then as a junior doctor in Myanmar long before he
left for Hong Kong.
He was already an eminent and respected surgeon but exceptional in
that his knowledge of basic sciences was accurate to the minutest detail
as would be expected of an expert in those subjects. At the same time he
knew how to explain those facts in a language that would be equally
comprehensible to the most junior of medical students and nurses right up
to and including his consultant colleagues.
His accompanying demeanour was always of somebody reminding us of
things we already knew, never of a teacher handing down information to an
ignorant student (even if it was obvious to us and to him that it was the
first time we had ever heard of it).
Despite all this, he was never known to make a derogatory remark
against anybody, colleague or otherwise. He was the perfect example that
it is absolutely possible to reach the zenith of your chosen career yet
remain humble and chivalrous. The two do go together because "the taller
the bamboo grows, the lower it bends".
He is indeed a real loss.
Competing interests: No competing interests