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Episode: #637 ft. Dr Paul Tambyah - Why He Chose Opposition Politics, Chee Soon Juan & the Politics of Public Healthcare
Description: He’s an internationally-renowned infectious diseases expert who became an opposition politician with the Singapore Democratic Party. In this candid conversation, Dr Paul Tambyah joins YLB to talk about the public healthcare system, his motivation for staying in opposition politics, and why Singapore’s response to the the global pandemic was surprising in many ways. Walking us through his days of activism to party politics to international COVID-19 crisis meetings, Dr Tambyah shares his unfiltered view of why politics is nothing but medicine writ large. (00:00) Intro(01:08) Infectious Disease Research(04:16) Political Involvement and Healthcare(06:53) SDP and...