The IT technicians berkampung at Pasar Siti Khatijah doing the data migration for UMMC

The Nadi IT people are busy migrating the clinical data fromthe old to the new system. Subsequenty most of the system in hospital are down fr the weekend as the servers are beig updated. I feel lucky not to be on call this weekend. Doing the Sunday round was bad enough!

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Education session tengah rancak berjalan

Completed my session earlier and now everyone is broken into smaller group. Each group is based on the medium of cmunication. I gave my talk in Malay, while a few of my colleagues took the Mandarin and English group. I didn't manage to stay for too long though. I did my interview and by the time that is done the session was almost over.

At the moment I was treated by a saxophone solo by one of the patients. At the end, one of my patient was asked by MaxFamily to pass me a token, which I thought was a nice touch. Food was nice, but I can't hang on as I needed to give Idlan a lift later in the afternoon.

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Arrived at Hospital Ampang

The main lobby here. Patients are still lingering around the hall waiting for the next session after having tea. Going to start off the education session soon, then I will be off to speak to the media.

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Patients are the best source for advice

From my bedroom, originally uploaded by Haris Abdul Rahman.

Such a bliss able to wake up on a Saturday morning and not having to think about rushing to work, even though I will have to do the rounds tomorrow. I spend the morning surfing the net and putting the final touches to my slides for a talk later this morning.

I have always been a great advocate that the support a patient can have especially when we talk about cancer has to be from a fellow patient. Those that have already gone through the same thing, experienced the emotional roller-coaster first-hand. Their advice won't be pretentious like the once you get from doctors. Unfortunately the concept of patient support group is rather alien to our society. Cancer is still regarded as a taboo subject and I have sent countless number of hours counseling patients that their cancer was not the work of black magic or karma. It is not something they did in their past life, and no .... they are not infectious. Cancer can happen to good people and it can happen to you!

I am not referring not just about counseling patients here. Even close member of my family have this mindset. It is endemic in Malaysian society. Some of my family members even talked down on me when they learn that I am just a Haemato-Oncologist. They even think that GPs are more superior then me because they have a 'clinic'! So, when I have the opportunity to address the public on this matter, I will leap to it. There is even a press conference after. I will try my best to be eloquent.

Anyway, everything is set. Leaving the house soon to Hospital Ampang. I am sure that the patients appreciate my efforts, and that's what matters .... for the time being .... until I take over the world that is ...

And even more constructions!

This time it's the proposed new staff canteen. Built on the old Emima Cafe, it's going to be two floors, air-conditioned and the works.

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