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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>August</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Highlights<br />
Spotlight<br />
Clinical Case of the Month<br />
Reflections<br />
Global Mental Health<br />
Hispanic/Latinx Communities<br />
Voices of Ugandan Students<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Innovation and Technology<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who We<br />
Can Be<br />
Article of the Month<br />
Video of the Month<br />
Dr. Menn Memorial<br />
Among the Letters<br />
During his 15 months of treatment, he suffered - but faced it all without<br />
complaint, greeting everyone with his engaging smile. For a while it seemed<br />
as if he would reach remission thanks to cutting edge immunotherapy, but<br />
unfortunately the cancer struck back with an unstoppable fury that not even<br />
the most advanced treatments could halt.<br />
Accepting his fate, Dr. Menn made one last medical referral; his own, to the<br />
Marahraj Hospital in his southern Thailand hometown of Nakhon si Thammarat<br />
where he requested ‘end of life care’. Though paralyzed from a new tumor in<br />
the spine, he was determined to return home and was subsequently transferred<br />
by ambulance for a 12 hour journey through the night. His last few days were<br />
then spent in the very hospital where his medical career began and where his<br />
much loved family and many friends could see him and bid him farewell. He<br />
increasingly focused on meditation, preparing himself for the journey ahead.<br />
His accomplishments were tremendous. As a star student at Nakhon si<br />
Thammarat’s Benjamarachutit College, he was granted a scholarship to<br />
study Medicine at Mahidol University’s Faculty of Medicine at Siriraj Hospital<br />
Bangkok, the ‘Harvard’ of Thailand. He completed his Residency Training in<br />
General Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University, gained<br />
a MSc from the University of Wales College of Medicine and a PhD in Medical<br />
Education from the University of Birmingham – a masterly work of scholarship<br />
that set out his theories in reflective learning and teaching medicine in the<br />
modern world.<br />
Along with being a dedicated surgeon and medical practitioner, he was a<br />
pioneering Dean of Medicine at Walailak University’s School of Medicine,<br />
worked extensively on the University’s new teaching hospital, was a long-time<br />
member of the Medical Council of Thailand, a leader of the Thailand - Nuvance<br />
Health Global Health site, an advisor and associate on countless committees<br />
and a dedicated member of the Wat Phu Khao Lak Buddhist community.<br />
Further afield, he was a<br />
proud honoree member of<br />
Scotland’s Clan MacLeod<br />
(confirmed on him by the<br />
Chief) and a much loved<br />
member of the Horsley clan<br />
in New Zealand – his ‘second<br />
family and home’.<br />
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A wise and gently spoken<br />
man, he was however<br />
easily riled on the one issue<br />
that disturbed him most -<br />
corruption. Whether local<br />
or national, he regarded<br />
it as the underlying<br />
cause of the many ills in<br />
Thailand’s development<br />
and his uncompromising<br />
stance often brought him<br />
difficulties.<br />
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