Sok siphana biography of donald
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Could Medical Insurance Save Your Life?
Dr Sok Siphana’s world was turned upside down in February when he was diagnosed with throat cancer. It’s no exaggeration to say that medical insurance saved his life. And, shortly afterwards, it did the same for his son. Dr Sok shared the moving story of how his family survived two cancer diagnoses, in the hope that others can benefit from his cautionary tale.
Is medical insurance worth it?
This is a question that Paul Dodd, Infinity’s Country Director in Cambodia, is asked a lot. Clients often question the wisdom of continuing to pay health insurance premiums when they haven’t had to make a claim in years.
But Paul also knows only too well, just what a difference health insurance can make when it is genuinely explains ‘Insurance is not about the past. It’s about us not having a crystal ball to know what the future holds. The only time you will thank your lucky stars that you have comprehensive insurance is when you really need it.’
Medical insurance saves lives
One man who thanks his lucky stars every day is Dr Sok Siphana, one of Cambodia’s most respected lawyers and a founding partner of Sok Siphana & Associates. He wholeheartedly agrees with Paul and is unequivocal about the fact that medical insurance saved not on
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Story of Dr Sok Siphana
When the Khmer Rouge cadres told young Sok Siphana that he and a group of nine other Khmer boys had to plant one hectare of rice a day in Kampong Thom, which everybody knew was impossible, he was overheard to mutter: “Why don’t you plant one hectare yourself?” That night, Khmer Rouge soldiers tied his wrists and elbows behind his back, dragged him into a field and staked him to an anthill all night. He knew he would either die or his torture would end; the thought that everything had an end gave him comfort. “In those days, I was willing to die, because death in that case would have been liberation.”
I knew if I didn’t die it had to get better. This is where hope comes from. You keep waiting for the day you are liberated. “Life is the same. You have a bad day? Tomorrow will be better. A good night’s sleep will change things.”
Born in , Sok Siphana was the son of a lieutenant-colonel in the Cambodian army, the third of six children. He went to a French school as a young boy. When he was 15 years old, Dr Sok was sent to the Killing Fields of Cambodia where he spent his adolescent life. In , he went to the United States as a refugee. In , he graduated as a Juris Doctor in Law from the Widener University School of Law in Delaware, United States an
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