At the end of January, I published an article titled “Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV): understanding the panic & overcoming it“. When it was published, we were in the early stages of the development of what we have come to know as the COVID-19 outbreak. Since then, the number of positive cases…
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This blog is one of my many illness reactions. I created it almost a year after receiving my diagnosis. It was my chosen response to this new reality – the reality of being a patient. A few months before setting it up, I realised that as a doctor who has…
Wuhan novel coronavirus has finally hit our shores, a month after it was reported in China. On 25th January 2020, the Health Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad has confirmed three positive cases with another one announced shortly after, which brings the total of infected patients in this country to…
Since my illness recurrence last November, I have been categorised as a patient with chronic illnesses (Read my article titled “Recurrence: a blessing in disguise” to find out more about what happened). Even though two months have passed, I found myself still grappling with the term. Hearing my doctors and…
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are digitalised clinical notes, which contain information such as patients’ general information, history, investigation results, diagnoses and treatment plans among others. It is all the rage in the healthcare industry, and Malaysia is adamant not to be left behind, especially by its South-East Asian counterparts. Currently,…