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Shenton Medical founder is happiest lending a hand to those who need it most

By Wong Kim Hoh, The Sunday Times, 26 Jan 2014

By the time he was 34, an age when many are still struggling to find their professional feet, Dr Paul Choo was already pretty set up for life.

The Shenton Medical Group - which he had founded nine years earlier in 1973 with two partners - was doing swimmingly, with half a dozen branches in the Central Business District and more than 10 doctors on its payroll.

Success offered many perks; he could afford fancy cars and spend his afternoons on the greens if he wanted.

Unfortunately Porsches and golf were not quite his thing.

Then he befriended a teenager named Daniel Khoo whom he heard was helping poor folk in Chinatown.

And so one day, with Daniel in tow, he got his driver to drop him off in his Rover at Craig Road in Tanjong Pagar.

He could not believe what he saw.

"Old women were sitting in steel meshed cages, waiting to die.

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