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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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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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It has been almost 2 weeks since I last posted. It has been quite a busy 2 weeks with a lot of things to settle before the new year. Year 2011 has been a relatively good year for me, being my first full year in private practise. So far everything seem to be going on [...]

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 54,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would [...]

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LIST OF CONSULTANTS:COLUMBIA ASIA HOSPITAL NUSAJAYA   INTERNAL MEDICINE & RHEUMATOLOGY    DR PAGALAVAN LETCHUMANAN MBBS(Mal) MRCP(UK) FRCP(Edin) AM(Mal.) Dr Pagalavan secured a place to do medicine in University of Malaya (UM) in 1992 after becoming the top STPM student for the state of Negeri Sembilan in 1991, scoring 5A’s. Upon graduating from UM, he underwent his Housemanship training at Ipoh Hospital [...]

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After a very exhausting month of October, finally I am taking 2 days off to celebrate Deepavalli with my parents in Seremban. I must say that the month of October was a very busy month for me. Almost everyday I had patients in my ward and clinic. I even had a very ill patient with Severe [...]

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I have been very quiet since I posted the 2 most popular postings on the 7th and 8th of September 2010. My posting on “General Misconception of being a doctor Part 1 and 2” attracted almost 10 000 visitors! I also had many comments for the above 2 postings , almost all supporting what I [...]

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Indian dance performance by our staffs MB watching the performance by our staffs Before the Arrival of MB Johor   Yes, Columbia Asia Hospital Nusajaya is officially open! We had this ceremony last Saturday 24th July 2010 and our VIP guest was none other than our Johor Menteri Besar, YAB Dato Hj Abdul Ghani Othman. Coincidentally, it was also mine [...]

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What a week it was! Left to Hong Kong last sunday(11/07/2010) evening and reached HK at 10.30pm. HK taxi drivers must be really crazy. I took a taxi from the airport to my hotel and the taxi fellow drove his taxi at 120-140km/hr!!! WTH. I reached the hotel at 12.10am and switched on the TV [...]

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Well, the World Cup 2010 is coming to an end in 2 days time. What a World Cup this was? Interesting, with full of upsets. Now we have to wait another 4 years for the next World Cup in Brazil 2014 and you will be 4 years older! I will be flying off to Hong [...]

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