Bulletin No. 1, 2019

Doctors are usually the closest observers to pain and suffering. After studying medicine for six years, Yuen-cheuk has emerged from an observer to an advocate, and taken his service from within the ivory tower to the society. In September 2014, he set up a concern group on political reform with other classmates. In the next year he founded Lumos to encourage his fellow medical students to care for social affairs including the political and the medical. At the same time he also joined the programme ‘Homeless Outreach Population Estimation Hong Kong’ initiated by the I . CARE Centre for Whole-person Development and led by Prof. Wong Hung of the Department of Social Work. Such volunteer work has since put him in the company of many homeless people. ‘Homelessness is not only a symptom of the housing or poverty problem. It is the worst expression of many of our social problems such as alcoholism, drug abuse, family, marriage and immigrants,’ said Yuen-cheuk. His volunteer work in the last few years has brought him to see many cases for himself. Some homeless people often complained about pain in the chest, and later could be found no more. Some have successfully obtained public housing and turned a new leaf in their lives. Yuen-cheuk is a good conversationalist who likes to hear the stories of others’ lives. He aspires to be a psychiatrist, and prefers to wield pen rather than scalpel. A year ago he began a column in Initium Media to share his thoughts on studying medicine and living his life. What is the duty of the millennials? He said they must pass on to the next generation the Hong Kong well known to them. ‘Turning from the role of a medical student to that of a medical practitioner, I can see more constraints in the near future. But I will do everything to stay in tune with society and continue my various efforts. I don’t want to become a doctor living in his own world.’ Graduand in Medicine Chung Chi College Wong Yuen-cheuk b. 1995 PhD student in Philosophy New Asia College Kwan Ho-chuen b. 1992 12 Chinese University Bulletin No.1, 2019