The odd and interesting request
When my late grandfather was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in 2000, I asked my grandmother, what is diabetes mellitus (or also known as ‘kencing manis’ in Malay language)? I was so curious with the name of the diagnosis. Why ‘kencing manis’? Is it because there were too many sugar in the urine that makes it taste sweet? Why people do get diabetes mellitus? Plus, when my late grandfather passed away due to myocardial infarction, I keep on asking my mother the details and mechanism of the death. As I was strolling through my secondary school, I learnt that sciences subjects made more sense to me because it has definitive answers to my questions about living things, ranging from the function of cells until the process of rusting through redox reaction. Since then, I was intrigued to know more about human physiology and anatomy. Plus, my curiosity about the ailments my family had couldn’t be answered until I entered medical school. The satisfaction of knowing the pathophysiology of