Mark Cheong

An academic studying death, dying, and drugs at @MonashMalaysia

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

@Seanthum …but it is also important to take note of its limitations. Not everything should be judged using cost-effectiveness and its like.

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

Shocked to learn of @raulpacheco's passing. I didn't know him IRL but I learnt a lot about being a scholar from him on Twitter and we conversed occasionally with each other. I still use some of his best practices on writing today. What a gem of a scholar and an inspiration. RIP

[FLACSO México @FlacsoMx]

La FLACSO México lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega entrañable profesor-investigador, colega, amigo y miembro muy querido de nuestra comunidad académica.

Expresamos nuestras más sentidas condolencias a sus familiares, amistades, colegas, estudiantado y a las comunidades académicas de las que formó parte.

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

On euthanasia: “It is really surprising that one does not realize that what we would do is not killing the suffering, but killing the patient.”

https://t.co/03hci8r8WK

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

It is clear that the lessons of the Covid pandemic on the importance of having a resilient, well-resourced healthcare system have been forgotten. It is unclear as to whether the current state of the public healthcare system today can withstand the next pandemic or health crisis.

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

The government should cut allowances and perks for ministers and deputies, MPs and high-ranking civil servants first before slashing MOH’s budget by RM3 billion. Disclose exactly what will be cut from health care. If nothing critical is affected, prove it.
https://t.co/R9JcF9pUP5

[Third World Network @3rdworldnetwork]

"Not sensible or safe to rely on companies voluntarily sharing technology, warn Stiglitz, Geingos and Marmot".

The Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics issued a statement on the WHO negotiations for a Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing System.

https://t.co/FVikVuueBW

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

Sure, we should have a healthy private healthcare sector here but when the govt also wants to cut RM 3b from the health budget, do nothing about the health workforce crisis, and instead focus on outsourcing services, it’s hard not to see it as slowly ending public healthcare.

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

It's one of those days where I can physically feel the inertia blocking me from starting on this piece of work before me. Pushhhhhh!

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

@huajern On the contrary, I've found many to be in denial - the idea that people might not want to serve, or have to be enticed to serve is surprising to them.

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

What is perhaps missing from 'deploy, support, and retain' is 'attract'. MOH has never had to work at being an attractive employer - a blind spot that kneecaps it in today's global talent competition. Will MOH/JPA realize its weak position in what is clearly an employee's market?

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

Blaming only MOH for health worker shortages caused by MOHE, JPA, and MOF is indeed unfair. But MOH can’t be absolved either. Without fixing how we deploy, support, and retain our people, no amount of upstream policy reform will translate into better care.
https://t.co/0nZI07C3rm

[Alliance for HPSR @AllianceHPSR]

Last week we published a Comment in The Lancet on the health research financing emergency facing LMICs. This crisis isn't only about service delivery – it's putting national research systems at real risk, right when countries need them most.

More at: https://t.co/B6wfugIQ8t

[Melisa Melina Idris @melisa_idris]

A key safeguard under the TRIPS Agreement has lapsed for the first time in 30 years, raising new uncertainty over access to affordable medicines. On #ConsiderThis I ask Chee Yoke Ling @3rdworldnetwork & Monash University Malaysia's Dr Neil Sircar what’s at stake for Malaysia now.

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

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[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

Most of us, with justification, spend most of our days prioritizing our work and our careers, until we no longer can.
"...It simply reminds me that institutions are designed to endure beyond individuals. On the other hand, families are not."
https://t.co/XL3hiUx3W3

[WHPCA @whpca]

Compassionate Communities in Action : Global Stories of Care, Loss and Connection. The book does cover some of the well-known examples, and includes also new areas, people who wouldn’t recognise the contribution to the field. Find more information here https://t.co/YZaSXeXBYc

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

@yoongkhean It's a Hotel California kind of situation - can't ever leave!

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

@yoongkhean The secret unwritten standard which says that they can force you to do a task but they can't force you to do it correctly!

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

@chiayitay As it turns out, having (lots of) money is a good thing.

[Mark Cheong @markcheongwl]

@chiayitay Happy birthday, Speech Therapist Sifu!