Kai Inn and Yee Ling: Delighted that both of you can come. Will post up the exact time and location with map on this website. It will be a lunch at 1pm.

All you guys, if you can make it please come to our wedding banquets on 18th Nov 7pm in Alor Setar; or 21st Nov 1pm in Seremban. Watch this site for exact location.

I am an abomination, not because of who I am, but because of what you have done to me. I am the sum of your prejudices, a monster of your making. Now I wield the very force which you set into motion, the hatred to which you yourself gave birth. I will cause the world to burn, but remember, it was you who lit the flame in the first place.

Apocalypse, The Seven Seas

li kien,
we are coming to your wedding in seremban. alor star is abit too far and difficult to get airasia's flight. how is your preparation? we need some information from you on where and how is the wedding dinner like. and hopefully we can give our blessing to you on your wedding's day. bye

hi,
most of us in JB now are doing Ortho and i can't wait to join them ( except yeeling an rosman)
since i refused to take up MO call and the medical dept still insist on keeping me, i was send to the first class ward which is up the hill and totally isolated. i only have 2-3 patients and i basically work for 8-9am~1 hour that's it! sleeping, chitchat with nurses and patients and most of the time hanging around in library with internet. there is no acutely ill patient. ha ha. heaven man! but only for 2 weeks then i will join ortho with the rest of them.

hi guys
updating from keningau
just visited Rachel in Sook - a remote place where she is incharge (big boss) of klinik kesihatan - chairing meetings etc. It's 30 minuts drive from keningau. We were celebrating her birthday - her staff so cool - bbq and cook most if not all the food. But - if i were in her position,i'd be bored to death. She's tough man - dun play play - staying in a banglo - which her staff openly says is haunted - all by herself. She has a cute playful dog though to keep herself company and a supercool mum who comes all the way from kk nearly every week.
here in keningau hospital - very tense setting between interdepartment specialist - not very good working atmosphere.
ok ciao for now.

Hi Adeline, long time haven't heard from you. Yeah, the IVD technique sometimes works. When I was in casualty and sometimes when I had patients who were not ill enough to be admitted but they look at me funny when I don't do anything for them, I give them an IV drip. Quite a number feel better after the drip and don't mind being discharged. Well, as long as it doesn't harm them.
I guess a lot of us are at the point where we have to make decisions and take actions concerning our future. Some of us are sure what we want to do while some of us have not made up our mind yet. For a few weeks I was quite confused as well. Anyway, I think whatever we do, whether it is against our will or not, there is always something to learn from the experience. Good luck to everyone.

oh, did i told u all tat chun hieng is getting married on 15/11/04.to congratulate him-0128843917

The real carren: please inform me if they are starting a ent dept.

Also, my friend recently went to jab hasil in seremban, and after much tapping of the calculator, it seems based on our EC form (which we must bring there before we buka file) we don qualify to pay taxes yet. we have to wait for the next EC form which comes in Jan 2005. Thus, more money for us this year!!! I think....

Also, does anyone know about the APC? I called KL to find out more but it seems that our TPC is still valid and we have to be confirmed first. Can anyone validate my info?

wonder if they psy unit there?

hi there, adeline here, not carren (ya, she forced me to admit this if i used her password ;P)

i'm now in manjung (hosp seri manjung). it's kinda near lumut and sitiawan. nearer ipoh than teluk intan was, so that's one plus point. apparently less patients but also disproportionately less doctors, sigh.....

i'm currently MO plus HO cos the whole hosp only got 2 HO. yup that's right n apparently ipoh has 20 HO in paeds alone (one to set line, one to hold the pt, one to fill the forms --- n doing 4 calls per month ---- this told by my specialist). on leave now, managed to trick my boss. dunno what to say regarding dr situation here. we look like we got 4 mo in paeds but one is extremely pregnant n not doing calls n will soon go for maternity n breast feeding and what have u leaves. one thing bout district hosp is that u end up doing hell lot of calls (weekends included) n u do it all alone---- yucks.

ok good things bout manjung. nurses help us a lot. i think we cant do solo call without them. all the blood taking n line setting they try to do for u, i mean for the kids. but babies u gotta do urself most of the time. paeds ward nurses here are nice. i like them. bosses n senior mo's also nice. n i start work at 8am. (yay! no more waking up at 6am to go to work!)

i'll be going to ortho next month. somehow, hospitals other than ipoh hosp in perak are all in confusion. we dunno how long is each rotation for each posting for us, n neither do our boss n pengarah know anything.

everyone surely thinks that one of the advantages of being in district are that the patients are less fussy n nicer right? ----Wrong! Manjung fellas are real smart a** n they love the IV drip. trust me, even the granma would demand IV drip for AGE patient taking orally well n not dehydrated. i think the people here are propagating some gossip regarding the healing powers of our lovely NS. sometimes we just start a slow iv to shut them up as we are too busy to argue. this results in a ward full of IVD kids who are well enuff to walk around cheerily pushing the drip stands along. luckily my boss more than knows this certain peculiarity among the people in this region n never questions the un needed IVD.

apparently chun wearn is coming to manjung too. khairul is already in ortho here. anyone else keen? it's a specialist hospital n we're short. welcome all he he he (evil laughter). till next faraway time. bye n take care guys.

Will become permanent M.O. in anesth.

Hi,

Being casualty MO is kind of fun. You just work the shifts, you see fresh presentations (which is good for sharpening diagnostic skills), and there is no chronic stuff to follow up. The boring things are URTIs at 2am, somatization disorder patients; and really tenat old people that you dont know what is wrong with and dont know which dept to refer to.

I have requested to be permanent in Anest and it is approved. I will go back to air-cond rooms on October 1st. The anesth dept here really takes care of it's MOs. There are only 4-5 calls a month, we get postcall day off, and Day 2 postcall pm shift. Nope, I dont plan to be an anesthetist, just want the extra time to study. Plus being a permanent MO in any dept will also mean that Seow Voon and I will not be transferred to the peripheries.

By the way, Mong Tieng will be transferred to Alor Setar in October to do Peds.

hey man, what about me being a MO morning and HO in the night. have to cover the whole cardiac ward and CCU all alone. there were a HO and MO last time but but now i have to do both the donkey jobs with my cardiologist wagging their tail at the clinic and rest room. still have to do HO's call like other HOs.
i enjoy working in CCU with the air-con and better nurse/patient ratio and good opportunity to keep staying in cardiology line, but like most of us still uncertain about our real liking. been thinking to join anaesthesiology... we are living in this place with little control of my future? so far to go and yet so little sured path to take. is this what we want when we applied for our medical school 6 yrs ago?

dun worry, totally understand the re-transition to HO. this had been the sweetest 4months, had my own room, own desk, own nurse, n even with air con.....drug reps treat u like king, patients tot look at u with awe, n for once, felt like a doctor...but all these gonna end soon.. wil b goin to medical too........
hell.

A soul of water,
A soul of stone.
A soul by name,
A soul unknown.

The hours unmake
Our flesh, our bone.
The soul is all;
And all alone.

Clive Barker, Abarat

See the truth all around;
Our faith can be broken
And our hands can be bound;
But open our hearts and fill up the emptiness
With nothing to stop us
Is it not worth the risk?

happy national day everybody!
going back home mid-september!
yippee-cant wait...away from work, frustations of explaining to patients over and over again y they need urgent OGDS while they stubbornly want to berubat kampung and fresh-melena-ing away...sigh...de practice of medicine is so frustating....forget about communication skills...

Am rotating to casualty.

Hi guys again,

Am finishing my paradise posting in Anesth and will go to Casualty next month. Being an MO is so much different from a HO. I seriously believe that HOs does 70% of all clinical work in the hospital.

I have been buying some books on-line, and it is a good alternative compared to going all the way to Kamal bookstore and having to bear with their 'arrogance'. (Don't you think that they can be quite 'action' sometimes, thinking that they have the largest selection of medical books in Malaysia). I suggest that you check out e-bay for medical books before buying from established sites like amazon.com. A lot of people worldwide who have passed their MRCP etc sell their books on-line, and may throw in some of their own past year questions/notes/shortcase vcd etc into the deal.

Anybody want to share PDA medical programs? I got Harrison, Nelson, Current Medical and Washington manual and BNF.

Hullo, everybody.

Ju Ann: Happy belated birthday to Ju Ann! Alan had rather we gotten you the "Honk if you are Horny" bear. I thought you would rather have a peaceful drive back home.

Wen Jih: You are not the only financially deprived MO. Cheer up, maybe someday we'll meet up for cheap chinese tea!

Others: Keep up the good work. To those who hate their posting - only 1 1/2 months left. To those who love their posting - Damn it. but there are ways to get extended. Be creative!

Ciao!

look at d bright side. all of us is earnin mo call claim. so not so bad....poor me is still claimin passive call, ,whichis poorer than ho calls...

wah, such a long time. how is everybody everywhere?
damn busy caught up myself as a daytime MO but doing HO's call in medical posting. great responbility but get to bury the new houseman. ha ha.
oh, Azam has joined us in JB. feel happy for Hani. life is still almost the same, thinking to join anaest soon but still need to complete 5 posting. yeeling is fine as well, thinking to take up O+G! great challange.
take care everybody. enjoy what ever you are doing.
tony: don't worry many still doing HO job lah
wen jie: show us your hairy beard! how is your saudi trip

any news from roddy!