Chee Foo: Oh no, that sounds like a really bad fall. What actually happened? Hope everything is ok now.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. - Oscar Wilde

hi, everyone....
welcome yappie to this blog....may all of us stay connected until heavens fall

am going to KL this weekend for an ENT course in The Westin Hotel. Will b staying in The Concorde Hotel. So any1 wanna meet up and hav some fun?...hehe.... Initially thot my wife can come together but she had a bad fall n injured her back muscles and tendons. NOw mostly RIB....hopefully she can get well soon.
Congrats WJ for finally getting wat u wanted, seeing patients in car (hei, kind of like animal safari,eh...just this one human safari)....
Tony, why r u getting yourself posted more n more ulu than before. Hopefully you wont finally become a Dr. Tarzan.....

thank you, but am thankful tat no cards come to me....
the place is so huge here, tat need to drive to make rounds. so many in patients tat if they really go havoc, the town will b smashed flat

happy belated valentine's day to all! and thank you wen jih, any cards from yr patients? :)

yes, i am not "siao" yet. well, everyone seems so quiet nowadays, probably on recovery phase post cny. or broke from valentine.
so anyway, happy belated valentine everyone, n happy belated to feb babies: mc (who is enjoying himself in alor setar) n also to carren next week!

wah...welcome song hong to our blog...once a blogger, always a blogger....
wen jih not siao la... yet......

yes, guys, finally am back in hospital bahagia tanjung rambutan.... n i am bahagia bout tat!day 1 was ok.. shall take few days off to move my stuff....gonnna earn something from the transfer claim...

Happy Chinese New Year!

We are back in Malaysia. Will start work on Sunday. Had a great time in the cities of New York and Chicago. Went to many historical, artistic and contemporary tourist attractions. NY is as diverse, fast-pace and exciting as what we see on Friends/Seinfeld/Sex and the City/The Apprentice/numerous other movies. Chicago is a slower pace metropolis and is a nicer place to have a family. We saved a lot of money by renting a Columbia University student's room.

About two-thirds of foreign medical graduates in the States are Indian nationals. During the tour of the wards (as part of the interview itinerary), the Indian graduates were going like, 'oh that's my senior over there, oh that physician is an alumni of my medical school, etc'. Apparently, Indian medical students take the USMLE by bulk during their medical school, and there is a mass exodus to USA/UK every year upon graduation. The quality of these graduates vary greatly (as we all already know - we do work with a lot of HO or MOs who went to India to study medicine). Some of them are mainly targeting a green card. Doctors in my position will be eligible to apply for a PR status within 3 years, and then go into private practice after the 3-year specialty training. (But I will be aiming for a subspecialty fellowship after the initial 3-year training). India is really exporting their doctors to USA. Other foreign doctors are from Central and South America, and Philippines. Surprisingly, USA also recruits doctors from the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Iran) despite all the Sept 11, Iraq and Palestine political issues.

hey wen jih, hmm u got perak???!!! yeah another worker !!!!
happy new year ppl.... more like happy taking the opportunity to take loooooongg leave. ok la moderately long la. those of u who havent increased their weight by at least 5 kg since new year eve,, eat up man!!!!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! This year we see people moving to different hospital, different state and even different country. May all your endeavours meet with success, and remember to stay healthy and happy!

GONG XI FATT CHOY everybody!!

Great things happening to every one!
Congrats on getting a post in NY leekien! anyone else setting their foot elsewhere...ie UK...OZ?
Then we can have an international medicblog!

Congrats wenjih on transferring back to homestate! may ur transfer claim usher in the wealth of the new dog year!

Congrats everybody!! On surviving (2 1/2 years n counting ) and continuing this journey in medical life!

Keep this blog going guys!

to everyone:
happy chinese new year, another year down the drain but the new has come, so, keep an optimistic outlook for the year ahead!

yong: congrats!

.. n finally i am out of n9 n shall report back to perak on feb... n tat means shorter cny break...

adeline: do u mean the vegetable choy sum or the god, choy san? because in tampin, it is not unusual to buy choy sum and get free oranges!

yong: congrats! glad to see after much hard work and patience, it has worked out for u and your new family! all the best and hope to hear plenty more adventures from the states!

all: happy chinese new year to all celebrating! to those on call, may it be a peaceful one!

happy chinese new year and gong xi fa chai to all

Dear all

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

as a side note, those into Paediatrics, note that UMMC is holding a Paediatric Liver Update course on the 6th and 7th of April 2006. Price for MO is RM150

with that, have a prosperous new year

Hi everyone!!

Happy Chinese New Year!

We are writing this in Chicago! I am offered a resident position in the New York Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital Internal Medicine program! I will undergo 3 years training in Internal Medicine and then hope to get into a subspecialty fellowship program after that. I will start July 1st 2006. Seow Voon will wait for an offer until March.

And yes, we are expecting a baby girl this May! We are so looking forward to have her.

Truly, a year of great change. Sure, difficult times lie ahead, but it we will persevere and make it big.

Catch up with you guys when we get back.

hi everyone
why's everyone kinda quiet this days. me as usual work eat sleep n sleep routine. CNY is round the corner but i feel like ebenezer scrooge, no new clothes, not bought any goodies yet and believe it or not, just ate one mandarin orange so far-that was given out by a fake choy sum in a supermarket. one more call to go-on the eve of the eve. then it's sleep eat sleep for at least 5 days, i hope.....

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