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 [...]
Archive for January, 2008
30 Jan
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 [...]
29 Jan
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 [...]
27 Jan
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. [...]
25 Jan
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 [...]
24 Jan
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 [...]
14 Jan
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 [...]
13 Jan
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.
