‘I don’t want to die’: 20-year-old still dreams of becoming a doctor even as she battles incurable illnesses

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Miss Tammie Ong’s debilitating illnesses have progressively weakened her physically, but the 20-year-old still tries her best to keep her spirits up and her wish to bring some form of healing to others has not faltered. For years, Miss Tammie Ong had imagined herself in a white coat with a stethoscope, working as a paediatrician and helping young patients the way that she had seen doctors do on television. Then in 2021 when she was 17, she was the one who ended up on a hospital bed needing