Chicken pie

Having breakfast with Habibah and Sargunan this morning. This will be Habibah's last day at work as a single lady. She starts her leave tomorrow prior to her big do. As for Guna, it's his birthday this weekend. He sounded sober, so maybe his drinkig days were behind him! Hahaha!

As for me, I'll be traveling this Sunday to Ipoh. I'll be invigilating there on Monday. I won't be bringing the troops aloh as they will be at school. We will e traveling the weekend after to Melaka to attend Habibah's wedding. Better sort the clinic up first!

hematologiPPUM.com

Spend much of the day outlining the structure of the Haematology UMMC website, from the design, method of population of content as well as colour scheme and installing Disqus as the main commenting system. Eventually I will connect it my accounts' NetworkBlog setting in Facebook so that the update will appear in my Facebook face regularly.

Over time, I will also need to rope in the help of my Pharmacist and other Specialist in giving more specific input as well as answering queries should there be any in the future. I will also be talking to patients to get their input and maybe I will include a segment for patient to even write in. I am sure they will be able to connect more directly with the readers and move away to the stoic approach of a Doctor writing and thinking that was all the patient wants to hear. In the course of the last few days, I have received a few offers to help. And to certain someone who offered, I was not thinking of translating the site in Mandarin just yet. I now even struggling with Malay.

In the ward, one of my Medical Officer was taken ill. I therefore did an impromptu talk on blood transfusion for the benefit of the juniors. We also had sponsor for lunch - thank you Joey. She supplied me with my favourite pizza - the one with ikan bilis from Domino's. THat hit the spot even though I only managed to have lunch at almost 4. Next come a couple of referrals before doing some other paperworks before heading home. Tonight, more streamlining work for the blog. I have also just bought the domain name hematologiPPUM.com for the site. More reading tonight I am afraid.

Moving along

Don't you just love it when you come across a day where things were falling into places and stuffs get done. Today have been one f those days for me when I went through a lot of paperwork and managed to kickstart my research projects.

Currently taking breather from work and catching up on emails and writing this short note. Need to go through a stack of notes next before calling it a day. I might take the boys out for a drive later if I reached home early enough and they were still in the mood.

A Different Start

Since starting off this blog a year ago, I often recieved emails from readers disappointed that they did not find much at all about chemotherapy and cancer. I then had to write back to explain to them that thus is a personal blog and personally I was not really keen to be reminded of work during my free time. Maybe I should've picked a different title but it was catchy and I liked it. I decided since the end of last year that maybe another outlet is needed for people looking for medical information, more with a layman's twist.

After months of planning, I was finally happy with a format. It's bit perfect. It will be hosted in Squarespace - getting a discount for a second account. It will be bilingual as currently resources for Malay medical reading material is seriously lacking. The skeleton and framework for the site was already built and I have started to populate the content. It will take many moons before it will be barely adequate but I am sure I will hey there. I decided to do away with emblems and speeches and head straight to the point. Maybe in the future I will get my medical students to help. You have to start somewhere.

Ancient stuffs

Walking towards my ward fom my office, I passed through the newly refurbished Microbiology Department. They were clearly in the process of clearing up their cupboards and left stacks of old documents and files along the passageway. I was surprises that it went way back to the opening of the Hospital. Since there were no omputers back then or even if they do, they were sensible enough to keep hard copies, there were rows of them.

Which brought me to a thought. In the age when we were trying to move towards paperless invironment, are we covered should the paper trails go missing. Imagine if the results were so important that varification was needed, can we survive just by using te computers? Will they be pemissible in court of law? Scary thought eh?