Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee has given so much of herself to the Hong Kong community that she once even shared images of her insides with the public. Back then, I commended the then 65-year-old Ip in this space for the “beauty” of her digestive system and for her openness in sharing images of her colonoscopy on Facebook. She wrote back, thanking me for supporting her mission to raise public awareness of colorectal cancer, at a time when then chief executive Leung Chun-ying was planning to introduce...