Video: Diagnosis Wenckebach (with lyrics)

J. first saw this video when on elective in Canada during April 2007. Those crazy students from the University of Alberta!
Wenckebach periodicity (Second degree heart block Mobitz Type I) is characterised by progressively lengthening PR intervals for several heartbeats until a beat is missed (i.e. a P wave has no following QRS complex), then the [...]

The Role of the Student Rep

The job of student representative at a hospital for any posting is viewed [rightly so] as pure saigang. The selection of one is often arbitrary.
Example 1: For J.’s CGH general surgery rotation, the doctor-in-charge asked, “Who’s from ACS?” and the only unfortunate student from ACS became student rep.
Example 2: For J.’s first clinical posting, they [...]

The Worst Movie Ever: Epic Movie

Epic Movie is the sort of show where you go into a cinema at 7.30pm, watch it for 3 hours then look at your watch and it says 7.45pm.
It was one of two DVD movies rented to watch at a recent CG gathering at a friend’s place. By golly, by the end of the show [...]

Photo: Class of 2008

This is the most recent class photo of the Class of 2008, YLL SoM.
Apparently, it’s so difficult to get everyone together for a class picture that despite announcing the time of phototaking a couple of weeks before and scheduling it immediately after a combined lecture in school, the turnout was less than 200 for [...]

Construction, construction, everywhere

Note: noise pollution drives J. into a homicidal rage! aiyeee aiyee aye!
At home on a lazy Saturday afternoon, trying to get some studying done, J. has to do it over the sounds of drilling, sanding, buzzing, clumping as some houses in the neighbourhood are being built/renovated. Perhaps they’ll stop on Sunday, the day of rest? [...]

Request for Medical Textbook Reviews

Recently, J. received an email from the class rep who’d been contacted by the NUS medical society:
the Medsoc has been trying to revamp the Medicus website to make it more informative for all
One of the things they are trying to do is to revamp the book review section and they’re asking if seniors can contribute [...]

CGH General Surgery: Urology Tutorials

Besides gushing over the facilities for use (J. just played badminton the day before, his first since a nasty ankle sprain), J. would also like to effuse enthusiastically about a few outstanding tutors.
As the post title states, these two are tutors from the Department of Urology who have helped the medical students with practical approaches [...]

Books: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

How does a non-literary person, whose only claim to understanding literature stems from a secondary school course in English literature, talk about a book? Regardless.
It’s been far too long since the last good book, and unbeknownst to J., the craving stirred darkly in his soul and finally revealed itself in the manner in which J. [...]

One Year Anniversary of Practicality

How time flies. It’s been one year since this blog was started with its first 09 December 2006 post – A Fresh Beginning – Reasons.
Well, that’s that. It’s a bloody blog, you know, it’s only amazing if it goes past 5 years. Cheers.

Medfac Outing – 2nd Asia Pacific Brewery Trip 2007

Well, how about that? As it turned, out J. was mistaken when he said he thought the August APB Trip would be his last. It turned out it wasn’t, as a bunch of future doctors trooped down in a single coach (as compared to last trip’s two coaches) to APB for yet another night of [...]