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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Singapore healthcare is not very developed.
So it is good for you to come to singapore to have a perspective of third world healthcare
And the constraints faced in a resource poor setting
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Also majority of patients in Singapore do NOT speak English or Spanish. They speak mandarin or Hokkien or Teochew or Cantonese or Malay or Tamil.
There might be great difficulty in understanding conversations between the doctor and patients. You will need to learn those 5 languages before you go to Singapore for the elective.