Dr Jamil..

Less than a week ago I heard that Dr Jamil Habib Attamimi,a lecturer of ours died from cancer. I remember he told us that he was born in Iraq,raised there,studied medicine in Russia and worked in Kuwait before the war broke out,he then moved to Russia and was married to a Russian practicing in Volgograd [...]

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Patient’s Story 1:Pak Cik’s train..

As doctors,we spend a lot of time talking to patients and some of them have such interesting stories and habits that made them more memorable than the usual “cough and cold”  I have the habit of telling the most memorable ones to my wife during our long commute to Kuala Balah and one day she [...]

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Sometimes,we shouldn’t forgive and forget…

It always baffles me how people are more condoning when a celebrity does a mistake.. If it happens to be our own flesh and blood..we’ll scrutinise and even boycott him/her to death… How many singers/actors  are/were drug addicts…involved in affairs…and everything was forgiven after 2,3 months of them laying low… Recently a football player in [...]

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Random

I think we should ban the use of kencing manis to describe diabetes..it’s a gross misnomer and had indirectly led to many misunderstanding of  this chronic systemic disease..and led to many misleading treatments too.Kencing Manis(sweet urine) in Malay sound so shallow and not to be taken seriously as a disease. And I also oppose the [...]

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