How this small-town Malaysian who kept failing exams became a doctor in the US


A photo of the good doctor in action during the Covid-19 pandemic.

As a young girl growing up in Tasik Junjung, a small border town in Province Wellesley (now Seberang Perai), Dr Michelle Kem Su Ng-Hor always felt that she was of the “wrong gender”, born at a wrong time – when girls were destined to be treated differently from boys.

Now a successful gastroenterologist with her own practice in Colorado Springs in the United States and a medical centre where she trains student and post graduate doctors, Dr Ng-Hor hopes her life story can inspire hope in girls to never give up on their dreams, no matter their circumstances.

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