Video: PaxilBack (with lyrics)

This video by the Gray Kid has been around since the end of 2006. Since J.’s currently doing his Psychological Medicine (Psychiatry) posting, the video seemed appropriate.
Paxil = paroxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). That’s the same class of drugs as Prozac (fluoxetine) and is used to treat major depressive disorder and obsessive compulsive [...]

Thanks to WordPress’ Spam Filter

WordPress has been one of the most user-friendly, powerful blogging services J.’s used online (the others being Blogspot, Xanga, Livejournal, and the now defunct Diary-X) and he’d just like to point out what a relief having Akismet spam filter. Akismet is the spam filter developed by Automattic which is strongly associated with WordPress.
(Yes, even [...]

Posting: Geriatrics

J. gets awesome postings. The most recent one was Geriatrics at AH, a place generally considered by many to be essentially a geriatric hospital (though exceptions exist). With the final MBBS examinations looming, platitudes of how medical students “are not studying to pass the examinations. The aim is to learn to become good doctors.” start [...]

Medicine-Law Debate: Remuneration

The Medicine-Law Debate marked the end of the Inaugural Medicine-Law Challenge 2008, where the two faculties of NUS offering professional degrees tested their physical, mental and verbal skills against each other in soccer, rugby, floorball and debate.
Overall, Medicine wins with 3 wins to Law’s 2, but who wins and who loses doesn’t really matter. It’s [...]

Differences in Hospital Computerised Systems

With less than 2 months before the final MBBS, final year students are thinking about what order they want to do their HO rotations and in which hospitals. And when it comes to hospitals, all aspects come into play: location, teaching, people to work with, how good it looks on a resume, so on and [...]

HO pay ain’t too bad

The grass is always greener on the other side, people are never satisfied, yadda yadda, which explains why you’ll notice that J. seems to be perpetually complaining that doctors are underpaid (well, actually he doesn’t always complain. he’s generally pretty okay with things.)
Anyway, at a time when fuel prices have risen, taxi fares gone up, [...]

Public Transport and Getting to Work/School.

In the 18th Jan 2008 issue of the Straits Times, one article spoke on the plans for public transport in the future, to make the bus and rail system “the other car”. J. spent 15min on that article and thought it was an insightful read and one that brings a lot of hope for the [...]

Handwashing or Alcohol Handrub?

An article came out in the 18 Jan 2008 Straits Times titled: Does your doctor wash his hands?
The gist of it is that an internal audit of doctors in Singapore General Hospital showed that half the doctors at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) don’t wash their hands between patients. Ew. It doesn’t come as much of [...]

Grey’s Anatomy Episode – Energy Healing

Potential spoilers ahead for Season 4 Episode 11 that aired on 10 Jan 2008.
On the episode, a 49-year-old lady named Elizabeth Archer comes in with something (probably chest pain), was sent to the cardiac cath lab where she was diagnosed with dissection of the proximal 2/3rds of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery. That’s a [...]

Video: The PCR Song (with lyrics)

Addendum: There’s a follow up to the PCR song – Bio-Rad’s GTCA Song.
PCR = Polymerase Chain Reaction, used for gene amplication for work with DNA/RNA.
It’s actually an advertisement for PCR machines by Bio-Rad, and damn it’s good.

Lyrics below.