graphically and musically inspiring.
/thanks hedirman
Law and Medicine is a high quality website, and if you dig around, it has a wealth of high yield MRCP notes, and online courses for MRCP and core medical training. It also has a law section as the dude‘s a cambridge trained MRCP +ve doc with a graduate law diploma, an interest in neuroethics and is currently pursuing an MBA.
An MRCP guide by law and medicine
Uniquely presented MRCP revision battles, of commonly tested and obscure stuff. By a then junior physician going through the same baptism of fire.
and a book by Dr Fazal-I-Akbar Danish available partially on google books: Essential lists of differential diagnoses for MRCP, with diagnostic hints. I found this very high yield and easy to dip into.
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During those particular years at the largest medical school in europe, a major provider for general practitioners, our pathology syllabus was inadvertently diluted to make way for communication skills, and learning intricately to elicit patient’s ideas, concerns and expectations. This has since been addressed. However, along with the fact that I concentrated in non-academic achievments while at medical school, means I’m working harder than certain medical school graduates, at my MRCPs.
But thank god for the internet and to the generation who hold the belief that knowledge belongs to all. I thank in particular the pathology Prof. behind Pathologystudent.com, who is gifted in presenting mind whirling pathology problem areas with a clarity and juiciness i never thought I’d find in subjects like haematology, microbiology and immunology.
Also a quick and illuminating read, is his top ten tested anaemias, for board exams. Free for download!
If you’re hungry for more, Ed Uthman M.D. has a website packed with concise pathology notes, amongst other things.
Tags: doctor, exams, Haematology, Immunology, MRCP, Pathology
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Alas! Too much going on! More blogging to be done, but for now…
I’m all packed, for the big move to Singapore! I never thought I’d say this, but in the midst of the new govermnent and reshuffling (again) of the NHS as we know it, I’m really looking forward to this! Furthermore, there is no other place I’d want to be than with my feathery friend and first (and always) love.
Handed in my resignation, and looking towards a brand new chapter of life with my seagull – a new level unlocked!
Farewell bash this Saturday, to wave and hug goodbye to my loved ones here, (more like a c’ya later, in this day and age!)
Since Jan, Clem has flown here for our birthdays on 27th and 28th Feb, to catch up on sleep for an entire week, too cook (do the dishes), to pack and to visit London for a week for friends family and food. We have yet again gained even more XP points which amazes me, and trust me, LDR (Long distance relationship) is not for the faint hearted!
Now we’re wedxcited with our totally amazing blow-you-away private wedding bash, along with the church and tea ceremony stuff, and possibly a gala dinner for the oldies and the masses whom our family want to involve, understandably.
Exciting times ahead! I suspect very little time for good ole blogging, which I’ve realised tended to be a therapeutic maneuver, and in happy days seems all the more harder to get down to. Alas, a sincere attempt shall be made! What is life when it ain’t shared?
Thank god for google’s all-in-one wedding template, as well as stylemepretty and theknot for inspiration. Go there!
Tags: London, marriage, Singapore, wedding
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I never thought it could ever happen, but I’ve put a lot of my needs aside for so long I have lost touch with what exactly those needs are!
Music, Family, Friends, Seagull, Writing, Photography, Cooking, Exploring, Creating, Spirituality…
Strange feeling, how an existence can be so skeletal. Being in Portsmouth doing shifts and having no life and limited social contact really took it out of me emotionally.
Just a day of being in London reminded me what a shadow I’ve become.
But at least I slayed the Godking, (twice!) in Infinity blade! And got some revision done. One achievement this May and I can take a breather to live life again!
And move back to Singapore, and all sorts of exciting stuff, Pengull-wise! Oh, I hope this thing I’m ranting about is PMS. And this thing i’m doing to myself, it’s called sacrifice. And I must also never forget that everything has happened for a reason. (ie. I would never trade it off for having met Sri, and in leaps and bounds she has journeyed with me.)
I must never forget, that I’m not alone.
Hmm, I actually miss church!
Tags: Christianity, church, exams, journal, London, portsmouth, rant, sacrifice, Singapore
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Hello everyone, none of you will know but I have recently acquired an iPhone 4, through clever contract tweaks by Clement (My Fiance!! That’s another blog post altogether).
And the reason why I’ve been AWOL for a while is because the freaking thing runs out of battery before I can get any use out of it. The best phone in the world, and not being able to use it because it runs out of juice, has to be one of the most annoying inadequacies and contradictorily stupid occurrences. It’s stupidity like this that makes my heart race and worry lines deepen, so any solution could have a knock-on benefit of extending my life (And the battery’s!) and of helping me maintain a youthful appearance.
This stupid battery dysfunction means you have to turn off push notifications, wi-fi, 3G when you’re in a low signal area, etc (pretty much turn off every damn thing and not use all the apps the iPhone was born for.) WTF?
I have been ranting for a while now, and furiously researched some iPhone 4 battery extenders. This is it! (On paper that is, although Youtube reviewers have raved similarly too.)
+ Streamlined (It seems to add approx 1cm to the length of the iPhone and nothing to the width)
+ Aesthetically pleasing
+ Well thought-out design
+ Is also a protective case
+ Adds 300h standby time/talk for an extra 7h/surf for 6h more/listen to 40more hours of music! (God only knows why a gadget that’s predominantly a phone uses more battery to make phone calls than to surf the net/watch vids/listen to tunes)
+ Down to earth price tag of 89USD from exogear.com (Click for more clever diagrams and features)
Again, this is not a paid advert, although I may do it so well you all may think so. I do not get paid for raving about stuff, unless maybe I get more fans, lurkers and stalkers listening to my occasional whining and sporadic life blurbs. Hey! I don’t mind! I love watching my stats graph go up and down and up and down. It’s like how people like watching clouds, I watch stats.
Tags: Design, exogear, exolite, Gadgetry and the www, iphone, iphone battery, iphone case, rant
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First, do no harm. Perhaps it would be sensible to start with oneself.
In an evolving NHS where work intensity is increasing and organisational resources (cash and derivatives of) are decreasing, doctors are particularly susceptible to burning themselves out. We are well known for our charity, stoicism and stamina for hard work. But when is it enough? Should we “man” up or wise up?
I find it socially irresponsible and a character-flaw to grin and bear unfair situations, yet displacing the consequent frustration and dissatisfaction on your family/friends/colleagues/juniors or even oneself.
If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
Here‘s a JAMA article on mid-career burnout, and a summary below on strategies to invest in, to ensure you are able to deliver excellent care to your patients while under the unavoidable pressure of modern medicine as we know it.
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One night to be confused
One night to speed up truth
We had a promise made
Four hands and then awayBoth under influence
We had divine scent
To know what to say
Mind is a razor bladeTo call for hands of above
To lean on
Wouldn’t be good enough
For me, noOne night of magic rush
The start, a simple touch
One night to push and scream
And then reliefTen days of perfect tunes
The colors, red and blue
We had a promise made
We were in love
Listening to The Knife from back in 2004. I remember buying the Deep Cuts album and jumping into Beth’s bed and forcing her to put it on. I also did this with M83′s Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005) This was at a time when she would grimace at anything remotely deviant from the (paradoxical) “mainstream indie”.
Then Jose Gonzales did an awesome acoustic version of it in 2008. Only then, did The Knife come under the public eye. I do wonder if they ever intended for that to happen.
Ah… songs and albums bring back memories words can’t even fully describe. Language is both beautiful and limiting. And to think music is about half as effective as smells in triggering memories/feelings/emotions…
Which somehow leads me onto how learning and stimuli are important. Living in a box and a book will not guarantee you learn anything. I need to get out more! Travel, life, experience! Book-work while being a work-horse amidst utter dullness is sapping the life out of me and motivation has taken a huge hit, in these 1.5 years of sacrificing my soul to the NHS. Slowly re-learning and re-charging.
/rant
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I picked up this book at the RSM, at a time where I got so dejected at medicine and had this general sense of unease at the undermining of all the patient centeredness lovingly taught to me at medical school, by targets, budget cuts, competency-based tick box assessments, sheer volume of work. This definitely resuscitated me. It’s a must-read for any doctor who is not just in it for the fame or fortune, but for the love of the art that is healing through knowledge of the sciences and understanding of humankind.
Read more reviews of the book here.
Tags: Books, Clinical reasoning, How to think, lifelong learning, Medicine, philosophy
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photo credit: kevindooley
Who says it’s too festive to bury oneself in books?
Have a wonderous Christmas, all!
Next up: NYE Disco ball with the family and friends, in Singapore! Watch out!
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