Haing S. Ngor practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Haing S. Ngor as Cambodian-American physician and actor (1940–1996).
Haing S. Ngor was born at French Indochina in 1940. His recorded nationality is Cambodia.
Antibiotics, imaging and the randomised trial defined twentieth-century medicine; evidence replaced authority as the standard.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and film acting.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Cambodia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Haing S. Ngor died in 1996, aged 56. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine and film acting
.jpg)