Review: The Prata House (Upper Serangoon) sucks

Having moved away from the Thomson area where the crispy prata is overrated and has been deteriorating in quality over the years in both Casuarina Curry and The Roti Prata House, J. thought he’d wander over to the 24-hour prata house, grab a bite, have a drink and watch Electra on the television screen provided.
Electra [...]

Just Tired

There’s really no inspiration for any posts at the moment. There’s been actually quite a few things that J. would like to talk about, but the words just aren’t flowing at the moment.
Activities that J. wanted to talk about:
1) Singapore Night Festival: Performance, The Dancing Sky
2) Drinking with buddies
3) JCI
He’ll get around to it. He [...]

A Long 48 Hours

The past couple of days have been interesting.
Monday was the first day of a new ward rotation and J. was unpleasantly surprised by one patient who had had no bowel movement (i.e. um, passed faeces) for 5 days and was not responding to that most reliable of tools: the fleet enema.
As such, he had to [...]

Angry Rant: The Lazy Are the First To Complain

Firstly, congratulations to SGH for passing JCI accreditation. The multitude of changes in in place in the past 3 years and whatever modifications in the many weeks leading up to the audit have paid off for now. Of course, the JCI accreditation is meant to be a tool for self-improvement with the major outcome being [...]

Breaking the Monotony

It’s only been a paltry 2.5 months since J. became a house officer at a major Singaporean health institution, and already he feels like he’s turning into mush.
Soft and aimless.
Mind you, it’s not that easy to avoid. You might think that you’re working hard and providing the best care possible for your patients, but before [...]

J.’s First Patient Who Didn’t Make It

Post-dated post from an undisclosed time in an undisclosed location. And looking at the circumstances, it’s kind of sad that it’s not an entirely uncommon situation.
One day, one of my patients didn’t make it.
From the time she came in, the odds were stacked against her:
- Over 90 years old
- Multiple co-morbidities of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and [...]

Huff… Puff…

The initial plan was to have finished updating on the Beijing trip and more by this time. As it turns out, however, as the dour face the nurses at J.’s station have to put up shows, he barely gets enough time to sleep, much less update WordPress.
Anyway, J. has done 4 calls in 11 days, [...]

Pre-EOD Call

Every other day.
It’s the middle phase of my EOD call, thanks to some interesting arrangement by our roster monster.
Here’s how it works: I was on call on Monday and finished up my changes around 3.30pm on Tuesday. Going home, I had a good long sleep and later today (Wednesday), am going to be on call [...]