Let's Get The Dietitian Out of a Job

Browsing through digg.com, I dugged this article from Chicago Tribune. It basically listed out 10 food we should be eating and why. They termed this the superfood. Out of the 10, I have had at least 8 of them, so I am OK! Check out item number 4. That is a tribute to the ex-Selangor MB. Enjoy!

Trust the 'Mummy Meter'

Although the story from CNN did appear to be a tad sensationalised, the take home message is clear. When I was doing Paediatrics, my professor told me to always listen to the parents. Often times when we were buried to our neck with work, we forget to do that.

(CNN) -- Naomi Zikmund-Fisher says her son's life was saved by her maternal instincts -- and her son's flat ears.

One Friday night in May, Zikmund-Fisher looked across the dinner table at 3-year-old Jesse and noticed that his right ear, which usually lies close to his head, was sticking out. She went over to check it out and found a big red lump behind the ear.

She e-mailed her pediatrician, who said that it was probably just a mosquito bite and that as long as Jesse otherwise felt fine, not to worry about it.

Jesse did otherwise feel fine, but something set off Zikmund-Fisher's "mommy meter." So the next day, even though nothing had changed, she called the pediatrician's office and spoke to the nurse.

"She told me, 'If you're worried about it, take him to urgent care,' " Zikmund-Fisher remembered.

Her husband took Jesse to the emergency room, and doctors determined that he had a classic case of mastoiditis: an infection of the mastoid bone, just behind the ear. If not treated with antibiotics, mastoiditis can be deadly.

Ignore the mother at your peril!

Ronaldo's 40 Yards Screamer From Last Night

Who can forget this!

Did she meet Jack Dawson?

Millvina Dean was a babe in arms when her family boarded the Titanic. She remembers nothing of the journey, of her rescue, or of her father, who perished when it sank. But it's an event that has shaped the 97-year-old's life.

At the age of just nine weeks, Millvina Dean was lowered to safety from the deck of the sinking Titanic. Now, she is selling the last of her memorabilia to help pay her nursing home fees.

Almost 100 years after it dipped below the waves of the Atlantic, the supposedly unsinkable ocean liner still exerts a powerful hold on our collective imagination. It was heralded as an engineering triumph, yet succumbed to the forces of nature on its maiden voyage. Among the 1,517 who perished were the rich, the poor, and those in between.

Quite a nice story should wish to read. Click on the reference.

Liow: Recruitment of medical practitioners to be made easy

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has formed a special task force to expedite the recruitment of doctors in the country.

Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the task force, led by ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Mohd Nasir Mohd Ashraf, aimed to cut the recruitment process from two or three months to a month or less.

“We have been talking about the shortage of medical practitioners in the country for a long time,” he told reporters after the ministry’s monthly gathering here yesterday.

Oh Dear! I thought that the problem is more efflux rather than influx. Maybe the situation won't be as bad if people who are planning to leave the service are induced to stay rather than recruiting sub-standard doctors from abroad.