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Philippe Graffart was suffering from major depressive disorder which substantially impaired his mental state at the time of the killing, a psychiatric report found, which resulted in his charge being reduced to culpable homicide.
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She is so pretty that a patient followed her around the wards and would harass her colleagues about her whereabouts when she was not around.
Male patients and their relatives would also ask for her mobile phone number to ask her out for lunch.
And she has been scouted by modelling agencies at least 10 times.
But National University Hospital (NUH) nurse manager, Ms Judith Kaylene Lee, 29, firmly turned them all down.
She is interested only in providing the best care for her patients so they can recover as best they can.
Ms Lee has been a nurse for eight years and has been working at NUH during that period.
She got interested in nursing when she accompanied her family to NUH as a child because her brother suffers from congenital heart defects.
She said the nurses were warm and professional and empathised with her parents’ anxiety. She recalled one occasion where her parents accompanied her brother for an MRI scan.
She was sitting in a corner when a nurse went up to her to comfort her.
Said Ms Lee: “The nurses would say, ‘It’s okay. You just wait here for a little while. Your brother will be coming out soon.'”
That experience stayed with her and in Secondary 2, she realised she wanted to be a nurse.
Her parents were very supportive of her decision.
Being attractive meant she was talent-scouted by modelling agencies many times.
On rejecting modelling scouts, Ms Lee, who is single, said: “I love nursing and I have a purpose. It was quite easy to reject them because I knew that (modelling) wasn’t something I liked.”
Saying ‘no’ to patients and male relatives was another challenge.
Ms Lee said: “I did have patients or their relatives who wanted to get to know me, requested for my number, or asked me out for lunch. I never gave them my number.
“I am actually quite fierce. I know how to make things very clear to them and really draw the line, so I don’t actually have many of those kinds of encounters.”
There are also other challenges, said the Nanyang Polytechnic nursing graduate who later got a Master in Organisational Leadership from Monash University.
PROFESSIONALS
Ms Lee said: “Some of my colleagues feel quite upset when family members treat them like maids because, ultimately, some of (us) do have a degree and are actually professionals.”
She hopes to change the face of nursing and is heavily involved in the Ministry of Health’s Care to Go Beyond campaign, a campaign that tries to recognise the invaluable contribution of nurses and encourage more people to join the profession.
Apart from being featured in print advertisements, Ms Lee plays a mother who inspires her daughter to be a nurse in the television commercial “There’s Nothing I’d Rather Be”.
She is also filming for a Channel 8 nursing drama, You Can Be An Angel 2 , where she plays an Advanced Practice Nurse alongside stars like Zoe Tay. The drama is scheduled to debut on Nov 1.
In the end, it is the support of her colleagues and seeing her patients recover and walk out of the ward that keeps her going.
Ms Lee said: “At the end of the day, I find great satisfaction in my job, which gives me the drive and makes me want to do better.”
This article was first published on August 1, 2016.
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The LTA awards S$2.87 million in contracts to Rui Feng Chartered, and the two new City Direct Services will run from the fourth quarter of this year.
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Delphi Automotive Plc will launch a small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city district in one of the first real-world tests of automated rides on demand, the company said on Monday.
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The multiple lapses in public sector spending and governance are “matters of grave public concern” and should be adequately addressed by the Government.
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TAIPEI – Sing! China judge Harlem Yu announced his remarriage on Saturday (July 30), after co-judge Na Ying spilled the beans at a live event, said Apple Daily.
Yu, 55, and newscaster Jinny Chang, 41, whose romance came to light in October last year, have quietly registered their marriage in Taipei, said the report.
He said in a statement: “For me, this is a very important thing. Originally, we wanted to keep the feeling of happiness to ourselves and not disturb everyone. But thank you for your attention.”
He was at a Sing! China event on Saturday with co-judges Na, Jay Chou and Wang Feng when Na blurted out: “You’re almost getting married,” said Apple Daily.
A stunned Yu looked down, said the report.
Reached by a reporter, his agent denied the singer’s marriage plans. But Yu later released a confirmation through his agent.
It is the singer’s second marriage. His first marriage to singer Annie Yi ended in divorce in 2009. They have a 14-year-old son. Yi, 47, welcomed a daughter with her current husband, actor Qin Hao, 38, last month.
This article was first published on August 1, 2016.
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SINGAPORE – The High Court has convicted a Belgium national who pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for the death of his five-year-old son.
The court heard on Monday (Aug 1) that Philippe Graffart, 42, caused the death…
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