Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel! Today, we've got something super special for you. We're shining the spotlight on an absolute legend, Dr. Charles Toh Chai Soon, a 93-year-old heart doctor from the sunny island of Singapore who's totally rewriting the retirement rulebook!
Imagine kicking off your day with the sun, ready to make a difference, and that's Dr. Toh for you. He's up and at 'em, rocking the doctor's life with a smile, a stethoscope, and a heart full of passion that just won't quit.
From heartfelt morning chit-chats with his doctor buddies to those precious moments with patients, Dr. Toh's days are all about that human touch. In a world glued to screens, he's keeping it real with his trusty diary and face-to-face connections that make every patient feel like family.
So, are you ready to dive into this incredible journey? Let's roll and discover how Dr. Toh is living proof that age is just a number when you're living your passion.
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My name is Charles Toh Chye Soon. I'm 93.
My working hours now is Monday to Friday and Saturday half-day.
Dr Charles Toh is one of Singapore's pioneering heart specialists.
He has never retired and still enjoys working full-time.
I wake up at 7 o'clock. I will leave home at 8 o'clock and I'm here at 8.30.
So I will do a walk-around for half an hour if I have patients in the ward.
If there are no patients in the ward, we just have a chit-chat with the doctors, have a cup of tea.
And our clinic will open at 9.30 and we go on till about 1 o'clock.
And from 2 to 5, we run the clinic.
I think that I enjoy most is I keep contact with patients who have different problems,
different social life, different medical health problems.
And many of them come from foreign countries.
And that also is very interesting to me. I mean, I'm very interested in history.
The other thing I look forward to is sometimes visiting speakers.
We have visiting speakers from different countries who come give talks
to our Cardiac Society, to the Medical Association.
So I look forward to that because it's not just the medical side, there's a social aspect of it too.
Dr Toh takes a more traditional approach to work,
keeping medical records in a cabinet rather than on a computer.
He also does not have a computer at his work desk.
Can you imagine a patient sitting in front of you?
You talk to him, then you look at the screen all the time, trying to trace his record and all that.
To me, that's a little bit impersonal sometimes.
I mean, I'd rather talk to the patient in the face.
Dr Toh also relies on a diary for his appointments.
I use it for recording friends and patients' names, ICs, phone numbers,
and of course medication that they're taking to remember.
I write down my appointments, meeting times and all that.
Which is of course nowadays available with a handphone,
because I can flip it much faster.
Dr Toh does not have any plans to retire just yet.
His family has left that decision completely up to him.
Why don't you come tomorrow morning?
Anytime is alright.
See you, Nancy. Bye-bye.
Well, I always believe that from the health point of view,
you should continue working if you can.
Doing nothing, retiring at home, watching TV is very unhealthy.
But unfortunately, in certain areas, certain professions, you have no choice.
Surgeons have to retire earlier because they depend a lot on their technical skills.
But in the case of physicians, we are really most of the time prescribing and giving opinions.
My sons are happy that I continue working.
I'm not a burden to them. One of my sons is a doctor,
so if I keep up my medicine, I keep closer touch with him.
They never say anything, they left it to me completely.
