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Hanxin Lecture Series: Medical Ethics and Clinical Decision-making
The inaugural session of the "Hanxin Lecture Series" featured Dr. Ong Tee Chuan, who gave a talk on "Medical Ethics and Clinical Decision-Making." Dr. Ong graduated from the University of Malaya’s Faculty of Medicine and is currently a clinical hematology specialist at Ampang Hospital in Selangor. He specializes in blood cancers and bone marrow transplantation and has nearly 30 years of medical experience.In four sessions, Dr. Ong shared insights on “Medical Ethics: Born from Authoritarianism and Tragedy”, “Clinical Decision-Making: Tug of War Between Science and Art”, “Head-On Collision: When Medical Ethics Meets Clinical Decision-Making” and “Where Do We Go From Here: Medical Ethics and Clinical Decision-Making in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”
He explained to participants the principles of Public Health Ethics, which include the harm principle, health paternalism, and social justice, as well as the four key principles of Medical Ethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
Dr. Ong also traced the evolution of clinical medicine and medical ethics, citing war-related experiments such as rapid decompression, live brain dissections, hypothermia, consumption of seawater, human limb grafting, and gunshot wound testing. In one of the sessions, he presented case studies to prompt participants to reflect on ethical dilemmas in medicine.
