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The news below appeared in Berita Harian today http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/Kapastertinggaldalamhidung/Article/ . If you all remember, just a few weeks ago I did bring up an issue of poor regulation to monitor the so-called foreign trained “specialist”. The government has now allowed doctors (Malaysians) who have been in service for 10 years and more overseas to return to the country [...]

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When I read what our DPM said in the newspaper today, I almost fell off my chair. I think our politicians are becoming clowns to entertain us all the time. Just look at another article that was published in the Star yesterday “EIS sets parents abuzz” http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/3/31/nation/11024129&sec=nation which I have attached below. Two contradicting reports!! I [...]

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Case 1: 2 weeks ago, a 60+ year old man came to see me. He came with 4 days history of inability to open his mouth completely, unable to protrude his tongue, stiff neck muscles and upper back. He denied taking any medication such as Maxolon. He has a chronic venous ulcer of the RT ankle [...]

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This is a beautifully written letter by Dr Wong Yin Onn, a Consultant Physician and Associate Professor at Monash Malaysia which you can also read over here http://myhealth-matters.blogspot.com/2012/03/do-you-want-to-be-doctor-by-prof-wong.html and here https://www.facebook.com/groups/179465178830655/#!/groups/179465178830655/doc/198885280221978/. Dr Wong is a senior Consultant Physician who is running a private clinic in JB town. When the Monash campus started in JB in 2006, he was one [...]

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The article below appeared in NST today http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/enough-doctors-in-the-house-1.66656#ixzz1qJoGh1k4. It looks like it is slowly coming out of the bottle. Even though the issue of oversupply of doctors did appear last year, it died off slowly when the “so-called” moratorium was implemented by the cabinet. The moratorium ended up as a joke after that! The article below has [...]

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On 2/03/2012, I wrote about this college http://pagalavan.com/2012/03/02/money-money-money-lots-of-money/which is offering an offshore twinning programme in Ukraine with 3 unrecognised universities but will be recognised when it is done via them! A genius formula which definitely will make more colleges to work out similar programmes like this. Then I was sent this link http://www.lincoln.edu.my/courses/doctor-courses/doctor-of-medicine-md-luc-offshore-ivano-ukraine-.html by a student [...]

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 I received this interesting link today: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9138415/Doctors-could-face-GMC-action-for-ignoring-poor-care.html. If this were to be implemented here, many doctors may be jobless! I see mismanagement and misdiagnosis on a daily basis , both from public and private sector. I am not saying that doctors don’t make mistakes but a poor care to any patient can be penalised. According [...]

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I was flipping through the latest Berita MMA magazine (Feb 2012) today and noticed a section on ” SCHOMOS meets Bahagian Perkembangan Perubatan and Bahagian Pengurusan Latihan” http://www.mma.org.my/Portals/0/Schomos%20Feb%202012.pdf. The situation is getting very critical as you can see. Firstly, the new rule says that you need to be in service for at least 5 years ( 2 years HO and 3 years MO) in order [...]

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My last article on this series was written on 12th November 2011. The article was about how private hospitals are managed in this country and what is happening lately in private sector. Consultants in private hospitals are NOT employed by the hospital as many presume. You are self-employed and your income depends on your charges. Generally, [...]

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