![]() ![]() I thought: ‘When I sleep, that voice goes off. “I had this sense of an inner voice that was speaking to me. He woke up in the middle of the night, next to his dad who was snoring. He had an inkling of God when he was about eight years old. His clinic, Alpha Joints & Orthopaedics, specialises in joint problems, limb trauma and sports injuries he knows them first hand, having sustained numerous injuries from mountain biking to snowboarding. After the final whistle blew and the team won the match, he drove in pain to the hospital, where an X-ray showed multiple fractures in his arm. ![]() The team doctor diagnosed it as a sprain, even though “the radius was rattling like a bag of bones”. In the first half of an important match, he felt his left forearm buckle after being hit in a tackle. His cohort, he says, “are very important in forming me and guiding me to where I am now”.ĭr Lim’s interest in orthopaedic surgery was triggered by a rugby injury in his third year of medical school. “Failure can be part of God’s plan to mould us, to direct us,” he believes. “By some quirk, I had okay results and applied and got into medicine and found that I liked it.”īut he only got into medicine one year behind his Pre-University cohort – because he did not pass his Chinese on the first try. “But my maths was not that good” and the course was not offered in Singapore. He had his heart set on studying “some fierce thing” like aeronautical engineering. ![]() “Failure can be part of God’s plan to mould us, to direct us.” Clinging to 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 enabled him to stay calm. When judgement was made against him, and he was given the maximum fine of $100,000, he braced himself for the media storm. ![]() “Because in these things, we are reminded of how present God is in our lives.”ĭr Lim pleaded guilty in June 2018. He also remained in a posture of thankfulness. He asked his “confidantes, prayer warriors and witnesses” to constantly uplift him in prayer and for him to see God’s purpose throughout this particular season of his life.ĭespite the emotional heaviness and constant challenge on his thinking and mood, God sustained him. “I did that very intentionally so that as I walked through this dark valley, I wanted them to see what it was like for someone to walk through it with God.” Whereas to just plead guilty, you can fight for a lower penalty – which is the highest fine.”Īround that time, Dr Lim was asked to consider becoming an elder of the church. He was open with his church leadership and cell group about his legal case. He was told: “If you were to fight, you might end up being suspended for a longer time than you would have if you didn’t fight it. Then he had to decide whether to fight the case, “or to just recognise that I didn’t document it and just be punished for that”. But the thing is, I didn’t record it.”ĭr Lim was told: “The fact that you didn’t record it is as good as you not having told her.” “I actually don’t really recall if I told her the complications – it is my practice to do that. “I don’t know how this is going to end up, but let’s keep trusting God and praying.” She filed a complaint against the doctor in January 2016, saying he failed to advise her on the possible complications. The patient claimed to have paper-thin skin with discolouration, loss of fat and muscle tissues as a result. After an MRI, he informed her of treatment options. Pleading guiltyĭr Lim had treated the patient for pain in her left wrist in October 2014. “I don’t know how this is going to end up, but let’s keep trusting God and praying through it,” he told them. In the worst case scenario, he would be suspended from practising for six months to a year. But he was “very very sure that God was with me and this was going to be a learning experience”.ĭr Lim sat his wife and two daughters down to let them know what was happening. It was just the beginning of his “journey into the dark”. But God asked him: Quo Vadis? Where are you going? At the beginning of his four-year trial, Dr Lim Lian Arn wanted to settle the case quickly and get on with life. ![]()
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