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home is wherethe heart isNovelist George Moore once said that a man travels the world over in search of whathe needs and returns home to find it. The words couldn’t be truer for Dr Mohd SyahizulNuhairy Mohd Sharial, a medical oncologist at Pantai Hospital Ipoh.Many children experience a defining moment in lifeduring which they catch a glimpse of what they wouldlike to do with their future. For 35-year-old medicaloncologist Dr Mohd Syahizul Nuhairy Mohd Sharial,better known as Dr Zul, his father’s surgery from a slippeddisc two decades ago was his first glimpse into the worldof medicine.The self-professed tech geek who loves tinkering withgadgets and computers and used to harbour boyishdreams of becoming either a policeman, firefighter orteacher found himself irresistibly drawn to medicine andhealing when he witnessed how the doctors and medicalteam charted his father’s path to full recovery.“It made me see how medicine can make such a bigdifference to someone’s life. My father later shared thathis childhood dream had been to become a doctor. Itsealed the decision on the course of study, not just for mebut also for my three siblings who are also in healthcaretoday,” recalls Dr Zul, who is the eldest child.Little did he realise that his somewhat nomadic childhoodand education, moving from Kuching, Sarawak to Kuala26 Profiles