DR RONALD NG MBBS, FRCP(E), FRCP(G), FAMS is a clinical haematologist with ICON Haematology at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore. He has held senior teaching positions at Hong Kong University, and at University College Hospital Medical School, London. He was a member of the Singapore National Medical Research Council and is currently a member of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) under the SingHealth Group of Hospitals. He is a Principal Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre as well as a State Court Volunteer Mediator. He has wide ranging interests in many subjects, and has completed more than 150 online courses on Coursera and edX, on topics ranging from STEM subjects to philosophy and ethics, including Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Medical Technologies and Ethics
This essay looks at the impact of science and technology on various aspects of ethics in the delivery of healthcare. Technology here is used in the broader sense of the application of scientific methods as…
Learning for the Future
“More people will be required to learn AI and be skilled in the maintenance of AI, and that many traditional jobs will become redundant.” A few months ago, an English friend of mine who is…
