
Penang Medical Practitioners’ Society
The PMPS (Penang Medical Practitioners’ Society) was founded in 1932 to represent local medical doctors in their dealing with bureaucracy of the ruling colonial government. This idea was establish by a small group of private practitioners where they want to increase the social venue among doctors and one of them was Dr.Lim Swee Leong, the former president of PMPS in 1934. At the time of the formation of the society, Mr A.M. Goodman, Resident Councillor of Penang, former Chinese Affairs Secretory in Singapore was a very important figure as he started trying to get the doctors to come together to form a group whom he could sound for their views. He respected the medical community, and eventually for their services, private practitioner were rewarded by the government.

