Dr Lee Wei Ling with her mother, Madam Kwa Geok Choo, in England in 1971, on the occasion of her father receiving honorary doctor of laws degrees at Liverpool and Sheffield universities. - PHOTOS: COURTESY OF LEE WEI LING
Dr Lee Wei Ling had one condition when she agreed to this interview: no photographs.
She did not want people to recognise her.
On the 80th birthday of her father - the late former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew - in 2003, her photo appeared in the press.
Not long after, a stranger accosted the medical professor in a lift at KK Women's and Children's Hospital and asked her: "Are you Dr Lee? You see patients dressed like that?"
The 60-year-old former director of the National Neuroscience Institute is sitting in her office at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, dressed in a well-worn grey T-shirt.
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