 Good evening. It's not very often that a simple humble doctor of medicine Shares the podium with one of the most respected names in the financial industry And for this incredible privilege, I would like to thank you in a city Like to thank Iqlif. And of course, it's mercurial see you Peshawari Usually whenever I sit on a bus to I tend to fall off after about five minutes So today, I think I will not sit probably lean. I probably stand whatever and Governor, I'm very sorry. I forgot to bring my mind map with me today And I have also just done complicated eight hour quadruple bypass On a patient who's kidney and liver, but also not functioning properly unfortunately But the good news is that he's doing very well And I'm able to spend the evening in this very August company My brief was quite similar to yours. It said share your leadership story What values you hold dear and of course a few tips on Well-being and good health So I'll start from the very beginning in section 14 in Petaling chair My father used to work for Shaw brothers Which at that time was a significant player in the movie industry? But he was not the star nor The actor he was just the manager of the Lido and federal theaters Which Shaw had at that time He was a very simple man He was straighter than a straight line and he was a very pious Hindu But his best friend was Mr. Muhammad a Very pious Muslim may sold rest in peace But extremely proud of the fact that he came from the same village in the state of Kerala in India, which gave Malaysia our fourth Prime Minister those days I Used to go to all of Uncle Muhammad's tahleels and they used to come for all our poojas Those were the days when there were no fancy slogans No media hype no fanfare No metallic things that you have to strip on to your collar or shirt pocket But just good old-fashioned respect and affection for a fellow human being and that's something that I hold very dear Even to this day those lessons that I learned from my dad Uncle Muhammad and I think that's very important because as Governor very rightly put it The world is getting into a very complicated mess And if we forget this genuine respect and affection for a fellow human being I think we are in trouble I then went on to do medicine at the Madras Medical College in India Which is a second oldest medical institution in India and I was extremely fortunate to be part of its 150th batch and There have been 28 batches since then I Came back. I did my housemanship in Malacca and then was deciding what to do. I Knew I needed to do a speciality, but I wasn't sure what I decided not to take up Gastroenterology because for the life of me I couldn't imagine myself shoving sophisticated cameras up a certain part of a human anatomy Which for some amusing reason in Malaysia today has become a national obsession Didn't want to do anything with cancer the big C because I must confess that I Realized very early that I did not have the mental courage and the fortitude To deal with this kind of suffering on a daily basis, you know for every Motivational inspirational story that you see or hear of a cancer survivor There are hundreds who struggled to cope with the disease and Unfortunately as in the story of long some strong even those who survive cheat So, you know, I didn't want to do that So then what was left? There was heart surgery and at that time it just had that unique combination of a challenge Plus a little bit of glitz and glamour, which I kind of liked And I must say that I was extremely fortunate that my five minutes of fame came and in 2007 I was selected to be part of the team that looked after to the Mahathir and I know voting is just around the corner if There is even one individual in this room who thinks that age has caught up with the great man I assure you it's not my fault Please blame my anesthetist Values that I hold here actually By sheer coincidence when I was reading an article many many years ago. It was about Nelson Mandela But he was talking about this African philosophy of Ubuntu I'm sure some of you in this room have heard about the term Ubuntu Ubuntu in English means I Am because you are And I think it signifies the essence of being human It highlights the interdependence of human beings and at one moment Ubuntu can mean respect It can mean trust It can mean caring. It can mean sharing. It can mean unselfishness It can mean the community and very soon I realized that not Coincidentally, these were the very attributes of a good doctor A good doctor needs to be a listener He needs to be empathetic patients don't like sympathy He needs to be skilled especially in a complicated environment like heart surgery or brain surgery or any other complicated field of medicine and I think These are the things that We as leaders in our own little domain Nothing compared to the leadership capability and potential that most of you in this room are proud to be Holy, but I need a small team in my daily routine, I don't know whether You understand but when you go for a bypass operation You probably need a team of about eight people to look after you and The drama and the hype about heart surgery is that number one There is no room forever and number two the response time In case you make an error is only four minutes In four minutes you can get a Substantial problem with the brain in eight minutes. The damage is irreversible so Looking after this eight people who do the bypass operation I have to make sure that all eight of them are on top of the again and Unfortunately, if any one of them are Not up to par on that day and something goes wrong The blade will always still be mine. You go to any hospital for that matter You won't know who is the nurse who looked after you or you won't remember the technician who did the thing But if something goes wrong, they will always say So that is something that I always tell the members of the team I Lean on them as much as they lean on me and I think a lot of it is implicit trust Because the technician who runs the heart-lung machine for example cannot even see the operation and it is Communication that really makes the operation go very smooth so all the Interestics or qualities that ecliff and everybody else teaches you to be good leaders In a small scale done on a daily basis in the cardiac operating theater Now What about some chips on good health? The Dalai Lama is supposed to have said Man sacrifices his health to make money And then sacrifices that same money to recover his health so afraid of the future that he forgets to live in the present and in doing so He thinks he will live so that he will never die and Finally he dies having never lived and that I think is very important I'm not as eloquent as the Dalai Lama, but I tell all my patients Life is something you enjoy not endure. I think there is a difference and Basically, I think in any health kind of education. There are three significant words common sense moderation and discipline Because even if you look at the scientific literature even for us doctors, it's very confusing because one day They'll tell you a another day. They'll tell you be take cholesterol for example I think everybody here in this room knows how to spell it, right? For 20 years they have blamed cholesterol as the root cause of all heart problems But today we know that that might not be true And you need cholesterol you need cholesterol because you need cholesterol to form cell membranes You need cholesterol for brain activity Maybe you get better brain maps with cholesterol high cholesterol You need cholesterol for neurotransmitters. So cholesterol is very important and If you really follow the actual dictum and go as low as possible It might not be the right thing Number two for years. We've been told that having saturated food and food that is high in cholesterol will increase your cholesterol But that again is not true Because only 25% of the body cholesterol is from diet 75% of the cholesterol is produced within the body So you see scientific data is sometimes very confusing You go to a doctor today. They'll give you a list total cholesterol LDL HDL is that all kinds of things But now scientists believe that it is not the actual amount of the LDL that is important, but it is the number of LDL particles that's important So, you know, I mean if you really sit down and try and analyze all this, you will go cuckoo But common sense Discipline and moderation, I think these are the key words All of you are probably in an environment where I think the most difficult thing that you deal with on a daily basis is stress stress to achieve deadlines stress to enforce policies stress to make the right decisions for the country Now don't underestimate stress stress has been known to initiate a whole lot of inflammatory body reactions and these inflammatory body reactions have got capacity to influence various organ function Heart disease is sometimes thought to be of inflammatory origin Strokes all your arthritis and all the other autoimmune disease So the thing is you and I we cannot Go without stress. It's just how you handle the stress that is important and I think Basically, you need to give time You need to give protected time for yourself spend 30 minutes a day alone in a closed room Meditate if those of you are not against yoga do yoga, but skip the mantra. It doesn't matter, you know, I Think the most important thing is meditation spending time on yourself Reflection all these will actually calm down your whole body system and help you to recharge the other thing people say is Cultivate a hobby a hobby that you're passionate about and that is very important Sometimes it can be gardening. It can be golf. It can be anything but cultivate a hobby number three listen to music music has been known to be extremely silly and People say that if you can even learn to play a musical instrument, I have just started learning the piano Not that I'm very stressed, but in fact ever since I left I jay It's been a wonderful world out there because in I jay, and I tell you my day used to start at 6 30 in the morning on a good day, you finish at 9 p.m. I You do to maybe three bypasses a day or three hard operations a day It was madness, but I am very very happy to say that if there is one Institution that I would like to go back to that's in city I think amongst all the glcs I think there has been a consistent level of achievement, and I think it has contributed More than any other institution in the medical industry to our country, but now I'm in Pantai so what I What I hope to achieve is bring the best of I jay and into the private sector And that is what a few of us myself That's a doctor Zainal Hamid who was the medical director of I jay and we have now set up this new Pantai Heart Institute, which is just celebrating its second anniversary today and I think it has been a wonderful journey setting it up and You know serving the public in a different way The other thing that a health tip Exercise exercise is a given again. You need protected time Just running around the office up down, you know saying I do 20 rounds I walk from here to the canteen. I climb up the stairs. I don't take the lift. No, that's that's not exercise You need protected time and of course, there are various various types of exercise Do the catchphrase these days is H I I T. I don't know how many of you practice that it's called high Intensity intermittent training They believe that by really going full steam for a very short period of time is Equivalent to you know doing your routine exercise But again, I'm not sure as I said the scientific literature is very confusing, but I think if you can put it 45 minutes of brisk walking per day I think is is good enough and that will keep me going I don't know how many of you have heard about this project called the 10,000 steps and that 10,000 steps is if you can walk 10,000 steps every day I think it was initiated in Japan. It has been shown that there has been a Significant decrease in very many disease entities so I think Don't want to take too much of your time adiba nor wants to give us a few more songs. I like her music I like her jokes. She hasn't said much jokes today Anyway, I think if I may conclude I would like to Give you a hint of my favorite quote and that is Every yesterday is but a dream and Every tomorrow is but a vision But every today well lived Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope So with that ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank a cliff