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It was a hectic weekend for me. After finishing my private clinic at Regency last Friday, I drove to KL for a CME meeting scheduled the next day. For the first time, I stayed at KL Hilton and I must say, it was excellent. The bathroom was almost half the size of the room!

I met my good friend George , a surgeon at Pantai Ampang at around 10.30pm and ended up talking at Brickfields Old Town White Coffee till 2 am!. Well,it was an interesting talk as he just joined private sector 4 months ago and he seem to be enjoying himself. We talked a lot about the future of medical services in this country as many of the good doctors are leaving to the private sector, leaving behind all the poorly trained doctors in the civil service. Trust me, the current generation of doctors being produced lately over the last 3-5 years are totally hopeless, arrogant and has no compassion for the patients. Probably only about 10% are still worth to be called doctors.

The next day, I attended my CME talk on “biologics in spondyloarthropathy” at KL Hilton. Left KL around 1pm. Upon reaching home, I noticed that my Avatar blue-ray disc that I ordered via amazon.com has arrived. Quite fast I must say, as they posted it on 22/04/2010 and reached my house on 30/04/2010! The set which had a blu-ray high-definition DVD and a standard definition DVD, cost only RM 94. It seems that you can get a blu-ray DVD directly from US at almost 50% cheaper! Watching Avatar in blu-ray was superb! 

Suddenly I noticed my right knee was swollen with effusion. I did sustain an injury about 3 days earlier while walking in Jusco Bukit Indah, a slight twist of my knee. Even though the knee was swollen but there was no pain or redness. The effusion made my knee to be stiff and unable to flex fully. With that I still gave a public talk on “Gout” at IOI mall, Kulai at 5pm, Sunday(02/05/2010) during the Iskandar Investment roadshow, on behalf of Columbia Asia Hospital, Nusajaya.

This week is going to be another hectic week for me. Columbia Asia Hospital, Nusajaya will be opening to public next month(June 2010). Thus, we will be given IT training for the whole week as Columbia Asia is a paperless hospital and fully computerised. For those who do not know yet, I will be joining Columbia Asia Hospital Nusajaya as a fulltime resident Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist, while still maintaining my fractional teaching commitment with Monash University.