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The Politics of Redeployment: When a Failing System Turns Against Its Doctors
By The Insight Circle, 22nd of December 2025 “I am I and my circumstance; and if I do not save it, I do not save myself.” – Ortega y Gasset Walk Through the Desert Ignored and marginalized. Doctors leave in droves from the healthcare delivery system. This unprecedented exodus is no longer a distant whisper, but an undeniable reality. The drivers behind this crisis are nothing new nor unknown, often silently discussed – as if taboo – within the narrow corridors of the organiz

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Dec 23, 20255 min read


Behavioural Insights or Hindsight: A Call for Action to Transform Tomorrow
By The Insight Circle, 23rd November 2025 "A good man delights in receiving advice; all worst men are the most impatient of guidance" – Seneca On 25 September 2025, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, launched the National Blueprint for Behavioural Insights in Health with much fanfare. This landmark initiative signals a decisive shift away from conventional approaches to health management, embracing instead a preventive and behaviour

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Nov 23, 20253 min read


Our Shared Humanity, Bound in Pages
8th November 2025, by Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha It was 2014. I sat quietly, staring out the window of a suburban general practice clinic not far from the city. Outwardly, I maintained a calm, stoic demeanour. But beneath that thin veneer, my thoughts were anything but calm. The air felt charged—pensive, almost electric. I was grappling with a profound inner conflict, fueled by a growing disquiet about how conventional clinical practice was failing the very people it aim

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Nov 8, 20253 min read


Our Kids, Our Responsibility: The Mental-Health Fallout of Industrialized Parenting
By The Insight Circle, 22nd October 2025 “To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life” – Marvin Gaye Blood is on our hands The small infractions, the quiet moments of neglect, the times we chose to look away — they only return to haunt us. Just two weeks ago, the attempted murder of a five-year-old in Ohio and the stabbing at a Bandar Utama school laid bare how the lives of children can be irreversibly changed in a single hear

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Oct 22, 20255 min read


Bearing Witness or Bearing Burden in Gaza: Where Moral Theatre Ends and True Sacrifice Begins
By The Insight Circle, 10th October 2025 “Only he who keeps his eyes fixed on the horizon will find the right road.” — Dag Hammarskjöld...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Oct 10, 20256 min read


Healthcare Demolition Derby: Why Doctors in Malaysia Must Break the Hierarchy Wars and Reclaim Meaning
By The Insight Circle (28th September 2025) "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster" -...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Sep 28, 20256 min read


Complement, Not Compete: Softening the Mindset Blocking Psychologists in Healthcare
By The Insight Circle, 5th September 2025 "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life"- Ralph Waldo...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Sep 5, 20254 min read


The Grand Illusion of Care: Soul-Searching Amid a Culture of Bullying in Medicine
By The Insight Circle, 31st August 2025 “You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest.” - Zygmunt Bauman A...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 31, 20255 min read


The Obesity Fallacy: No More Games, We Need Real Solutions
By The Insight Circle, 25th August 2025 "When a cycle of a civilization is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 24, 20255 min read


Beyond Firefighting: Rethinking Mental Health Strategies in Malaysia
By Dr. Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha, August 17th, 2025 "Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror. No feeling is final." - Rainer...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 17, 20253 min read


More needed to address rise in NCDs
Dr. Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha The Academy of Medicine of Malaysia has highlighted the alarming trends of non-communicable diseases...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 15, 20251 min read


The Silent Revolution: Reinventing Malaysia’s Primary Healthcare Beyond Tariff Pressures
By Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha, August 6th 2025 “Victimism uses the ideology of concern for victims to gain political or economic or...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Aug 7, 20255 min read


Doctors Bullied By Doctors: A Manifesto To End Discontent
By Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” – Abraham Lincoln Bullying changes someone, mostly for...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Jun 16, 20251 min read


Primary Care Services Important
By Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha I REFER to the article, “Dzulkefly outlines 6 measures for better health services” (NST, June 10), in...

Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha
Jun 16, 20251 min read
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