Updated: Doctors ’ Blog roll
We have updated our Doctors’ Blog roll with the addition of Dr. Nilesh Anand’s Blog on Advice & Experiments At The Intersection of Medicine, Life and Entrepreneurship
Are you a Malaysian medical doctor who maintains a blog? If you want us to list it for you, feel free to contact us (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - August 24, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Site updates - Updated Links Blogroll Source Type: blogs
Is Marrying the Rapist to the Victim the Malaysian Way?
The recent judicial decision in East Malaysia seems to have escaped the attention of some media outlets. Another rapist married his child victim and was allowed to get away with the sexual abuse in court. The Borneo Post (http://www.theborneopost.com/2016/07/28/statutory-rape-case-accused-discharged-as-he-married-victim/) carried the distressing account of a 28 year old man who clearly took advantage of a 14 year old child and was freed by court. The report states the judge’s decision was “Since the complainant and the victim of the subject matter of this case wish to withdraw the complaint against the accused on the g...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - August 3, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Ethics - Guest child abuse pedophile predator Source Type: blogs
Do we really need a Government run Health insurance scheme?
The Health Minister recently announced
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry is seriously considering a national health insurance scheme which is run and supported by the government, the minister, Dr S Subramaniam, said yesterday.
He said the scheme would be voluntary and an alternative to private health care.
“There will be no private player (insurance company) and no profit motive. The government health insurance scheme will evolve according to time,” he told reporters.
“It is too early for me to give details such as the structure the scheme and so on. I am just throwing it out as a concept and let the relevant party disc...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - July 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Nation Health Insurance Source Type: blogs
Imagine (a Malaysia Without Vaccines, I wonder if you can?)
Imagine
(a Malaysia Without Vaccines, I wonder if you can?)
Imagine there’s no vaccines
It’s easy if you try
No protection for our children
Above us only infections
Imagine all the children
Living in disease… Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no measles jabs
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to protect us, we can only die
And no diphtheria protection, too
Imagine all the children
Living in disease… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer wanting immunisation
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And all children will be protected as one
Imagine no diseases
I wonder ...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - July 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Guest - Nation Imagine vaccines Source Type: blogs
Imagine (a Malaysia Without Vaccines, I wonder if you can?)
Imagine
(a Malaysia Without Vaccines, I wonder if you can?)
Imagine there’s no vaccines
It’s easy if you try
No protection for our children
Above us only infections
Imagine all the children
Living in disease… Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no measles jabs
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to protect us, we can only die
And no diphtheria protection, too
Imagine all the children
Living in disease… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer wanting immunisation
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And all children will be protected as one
Imagine no diseases
I wonder...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - July 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Guest - Nation Imagine vaccines Source Type: blogs
When Children are Harmed by Vaccine Refusal
The recent diphtheria death of a child, those with serious illness/admissions and the need for active health surveillance of many others is of grave concern. It appears we are reversing all our health gains in our country. The majority of our population have little memory of the horrific nature of diseases that we have prevented using vaccines. Those of us who have worked in the health system for many decades have experienced the devastating effects of diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, polio, measles, Hib meningitis, etc. I remember going through two diphtheria epidemics in different parts of the country whe...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - June 24, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Education - Ethics - Guest diphtheria pertussis vaccination vaccines Source Type: blogs
What doctors should do if criticised in the social media
We are seeing quite a trend these days for people to take to the social media to criticize all manner of things, including healthcare, doctors, nurses and medical staff.
Some of these criticisms may be the result of poor communication or poor understanding on the part of patients or relatives leading to unwarranted criticisms which in some cases even amount to slander.
How should doctors react? Should doctors sue?
Here are some useful tips from KevinMD which I think all doctors should consider. In essence:
1) Do listen to the criticism as the patient is trying to vent in the most convenient means at hand these days
2) Do n...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - June 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Ethics - Tips Criiticism Facebook Social media Source Type: blogs
How To Apply for Housemanship In Malaysia
Recently we came across an informative doctor blog (not many well maintained these days due to people indulging in Facebook but it goes to show how useful blog posts can be!): Random Indulgence. We’ve Blogrolled this in our collection of Malaysian Doctor Blogs. If you have a blog which you wish to include, please let us know.
Anyway, the blog in question has useful posts on how to apply for housemanship in Malaysia, which I think will be of interest to medical students and fresh medical graduates. Here are the links:
How To Apply (for) Housemanship In Malaysia Part (1) – MMC KKM
How To Apply (for) Housemanship...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - May 17, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Featured site - Tips - Updated Links HO House officer Houseman MMC Spa Source Type: blogs
