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Archive for January, 2012

Journey to the world of Transformers!

Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2012 | 7 Comments »

Finally, I manage to get a locum cover for Chinese New Year 2012. It was the best time to cross the causeway without any traffic. Thus, I decided to bring my family for a short entertainment across the causeway on the first day of CNY. For those who can’t remember, Universal Studio was supposed to be [...]

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Thousands of private college nursing grads jobless — Jeyakumar Devaraj

Posted in Education on January 16, 2012 | 9 Comments »

Didn’t I say this almost 2 years ago? http://pagalavan.com/2010/04/27/no-more-nursing-schools-from-july/. The government stopped new nursing colleges from July 2010 onwards but this was what I said then:  ”It is good that the government is going to stop new nursing colleges but will this solve the problem? The existing nursing colleges itself are producing thousands of nurses of [...]

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Star: Doc charged with molesting pregnant patient ?

Posted in Education on January 12, 2012 | 18 Comments »

A government doctor/specialist is being charged in court for molesting a patient: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/1/12/courts/10244849&sec=courts. Will the government provide the fund? I don’t think so and I am pretty sure that this doctor do not have any indemnity insurance to cover for himself (being a civil servant). BTW this will be a criminal charge and not a [...]

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For Future Doctors: Doctors going broke?

Posted in Education on January 9, 2012 | 37 Comments »

Will this situation appear in Malaysia soon? I am afraid the time will come. In fact it has already started to happen. I am beginning to see doctors closing shop and jumping from one hospital to another for survival. With the glut that is coming, the situation will only get worst. This article appeared in CNNMoney  [...]

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Laughter is the Best Medicine 9

Posted in Education on January 6, 2012 | 6 Comments »

I picked this from the Star today :http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/1/6/nation/10212570&sec=nation. A direct translation from Malay by our government agency!! What can I say? there goes our standard of English. Probably the person in charge used Google translator and did not check before publishing it on their website. I wonder how they will translate “plug and play“………………………………………. better [...]

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SBPA: Senior medical specialist in distress!!

Posted in Politics on January 5, 2012 | 14 Comments »

 Whenever the salary scheme changes, issues like this will appear. The letter below appeared in the Sun yesterday http://www.thesundaily.my/news/257153. It will always benefit the juniors and the seniors will always lose out and forced to leave. When SSM was introduced in 2003, I was one of the casualty. I was gazetted 2 weeks after SSM was introduced and just because of [...]

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2011 in review

Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 300,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 4 sold-out events for that many people to see it. Click here [...]

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