Article: Bangkok Hospital president's childhood tragedy inspired medical career.

Byline: Charoen Kittikanya

Jan. 10--Etched forever in the mind of Dr Pongsak Viddayakorn, the president of Bangkok Hospital, is the memory of himself as a 10-year-old boy running back from the shops with a handful of traditional Thai herbal medicine for his dying mother.

The disease that killed his mother was typhoid fever, an infectious disease spread by dirty water which causes a high fever, red spots on the upper body and severe pain in the bowels. He knows now that if only her caregivers had understood how to properly treat the disease, his mother would likely have survived.

Typhoid tortured his mother for weeks before she died. It was her ...

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