I’m Robin — a consultant surgeon in emergency, trauma, and upper GI surgery, currently based in Singapore after training and practising across the UK, Canada, and Ireland. Alongside full-time clinical practice, I write medical content, advise healthtech startups, and help screenwriters, novelists, and filmmakers get the clinical detail right.
Surgery
- Consultant in Emergency, Trauma, and Upper GI Surgery, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore
- More than 2,000 surgical cases performed across elective and emergency general and upper GI procedures
- Competent in upper and lower GI endoscopy, including diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy and colonoscopy
- Trained in the UK and Ireland, with fellowships in Canada and South Africa
Medical Writing
- Writes original content for healthcare businesses
- Provides ghostwriting and editing services
- Author of peer-reviewed papers indexed on PubMed
- Combines clinical expertise with clear, accessible communication
Startup Advisory
Alongside full-time surgical practice, I work as an informal clinical advisor to early-stage startups.
- Global Med Talent — sharing perspective as a physician who relocated from the UK/Ireland to Singapore, to help the team understand what doctors moving overseas actually need
- A clinical documentation startup building software for GPs in Singapore — clinical workflow feedback
Story Consulting
I also work with screenwriters, novelists, podcasters, and filmmakers to get the clinical detail right — procedure accuracy, hospital realism, and medically plausible storylines. I write fiction myself (a novel, a novella, and several short stories), so I understand both what a story needs and what it can’t afford to get wrong medically.
Testimonials
Dr Som’s background in general and upper GI surgery, medical leadership and education is impressive, and his clinical feedback is exceptionally clear and usable. In his first focused review for my patient guidance project, he identified important changes to bariatric recovery warnings, endoscopic procedure descriptions and GLP-1 advice around surgery. I look forward to continuing our work.
Marie K., developing patient education and support for metabolic and bariatric surgery, endoscopic procedures, and GLP-1 treatment
Working with Robin Som was a genuine pleasure. Having practised in the UK and Canada before moving to Singapore, he brings a rare, clear-eyed view of what international medical careers actually look like in practice.
In our conversation he was thoughtful, precise and generous with detail, from how Singapore rewards teaching and extra responsibility in the public sector, to the realities of Medical Council timelines, settling in as a family, and why the pace of care feels so different from the UK. He doesn’t oversell the move. He explains it with honesty and care.
Anyone considering a similar path would learn a great deal from speaking with him. I’m grateful he took the time to share his experience so openly.
Istvan Benedek, Global Med Talent
Get in Touch
The best way to reach me is via LinkedIn.
