Happy Mid Autumn Festival

Time flies and the mid autumn festival comes and goes each year.

Dr Og is not really a festive kind of person but mid autumn festival is a much lesser evil than dong dong chiang CNY. The music is not so annoying and relatives not so many (actually no need) to visit. So Dr Og can still tahan bring my gin nahs go jalan jalan with their plastic battery operated lanterns. If you are like Dr Og and cannot stand loud noise type, remember to bring a pen knife. No, no, no not to cut yourself if you buay tahan your life. But to cut the wire to the annoying music thingie in the lantern that keeps repeating that 90s-pop-song-I-no-longer-remember-the-name. The thing though, like a bomb, you either cut the red wire or the blue wire. If you cut the wrong wire, you end up with a lantern which does not light up and a crying kid that cannot stop. So surgeons don't try. Surgeons can cut human bodies coz human bodies will heal. Lanterns won't. Plus, anyone who cannot read guidelines to treat hypertension really shouldn't be cutting electrical wires.

Nowadays, seems like pharmaceutical companies under a lot of heat. The drug companies used to like to bombard Drs (especially surgeons) with mooncakes. Now it seems with new regulations, mooncakes cannot be given. Doh... come on la, doctors will not be swayed by the pharma companies by some mooncakes ok. Otherwise, you won't hear of so many of those sex scandals right???Last time everyone also give,  how to favour any company. Anyway, most doctors are sibei health conscious, most of the mooncakes also give away la.

Mooncakes now come in all sorts of shapes and sizes... and flavour. You've of course heard of the butt mooncakes. At least that is clever la, coz 八月十五 (15 August which is the date of mid autumn festival ((you shouldn't be reading this if you don't already know))) mean butt in Cantonese. But some of the rubbish that is dished out is ridiculous. There are actually more variety of durian mooncakes at Goodwood Park than there are variety of durian at my fave durian stall (not gonnah tell you where, the queue is long enough as it is)! I still say we respect tradition. I mean, if the mooncakes come in bright yellow snowskin and is luminescent in the dark, the Mongolians would have been suspicious and China will still under Mongolian rule today. How to revolt by putting secret messages inside???

Of course you will say Dr Og so spoil sport. Don't la, I already say I not festive person mah. Anyway, its not a PH (sob, sob). So Dr Og have to got back to my work. For those on call, do have some mooncakes (can buy from Polar if you never ta bao!). If you like, can switch on your handphone flash and pretend its a lantern (idea for an app!). Its full moon, A and E sure flooded, so beware. But if you so (so so so) lucky got time on call, you can read my old article on mooncakes, hahaha.

Singapore Lokun Si Sibei Cham.

Wah Dr Og just discover I din update my blog like six months! Aiyah, been too busy lor. Work long hours, have to jagar my si gin nahs and look after lao pek lao bu.

But recently, the Straits Times forum alot of doctors go and write in. Alamak, why doctors like to write so much. I think hor alot of doctors secretly want to be writer lor. Aiyah, you want to be writer than start blog like Dr Og la, don't anyhow write to ST forum can? But hor, their England not as powderful as me lor... hahaha

See la, now the people think lokun are money grabbing cheats, spoil our reputation. Even got someone suggest hor, private doctor should go back public hospital and provide free service. I mean its good if people want to volunteer la, but in the first place is buay song public hospital then leave, and now want them go back and let you buak kar chng FOC, funny le......

Aiyah, anyway, be lokun in SG is sibei pathetic. No guidelines for charging how people know what is the right amount to charge. Most of the lokun I see work hard earn money and get by like all other Singaporeans. You see the Ferrari and Maserati on the streets all own by bankers and businessmen one la, lokun all tired and sleep very early, won't vroom vroom around the road middle of the night.

Lucky Dr Og is just a fake lokun and clinic is imagine one. Aiyah, gotta go wipe my si gin nah backside after he poo poo.

Will write again soon.

Scary indeed!

Google is gonna kill you!

Well not really...

Nowadays hor, people really like to google. Even medical students and doctors use google to do research instead of pubmed. Some even quote wikipaedia. Wah lau, to junior doctors out there, if you tell me your reference is google or wiki, I will fail you.

But for the public, they have no access (and no business having access) to professional lokun stuff. So can understand la if they google to find out about their symptoms. But must take what you see online with a pinch of salt or you will sure panic!

Try googling lumps in the stomach and you get stomach cancer from the 4th - 6th results. Surely google can't be wrong!!! (When in actual fact, its very badly sagging breasts we are talking about here. Girls please wear your bra!)

Any way, I'm not trying to criticise Google but the act of irresponsibly googling medical condition. So Google, don't kill me can??

Right on the Spot!

My Precious

Dr Og went to watch the recent Hobbit part two a few weeks ago. After a few weeks all I can remember is they all walk here walk there. Yah and sometimes run. Of course this blog is not a review of the movie la. The movie I reviewed with the above one liner enough liao.

Though the Hobbit is suppose to be a gin nah (children) book, the movie had lots of violence. Lots of evil lurking around, including "my Precious", the Ring which is like sibei evil lor.

And I can't help but be reminded of all those precious little bao-beis running around children
clinics, yelling and shouting. The evil is sama-sama!

"I hate the doctor!!!!" wail wail wail

"I cannot wait anymore!!!!" wail wail wail

Some of the more evil ones come into clinic, mess up the whole place and steal more sweets than they deserve to have!

And of course the parents like kennah tiok cursed by the ring, running and pandering after them. So afraid they will lose their precious.

If this lokun has his way, all the naughty little ba*tAr#ds would have a big JAB in their precious buttocks!!!

Disclaimer: This post was written in jest and not to be taken out of context. Dr Og loves children and besides, water for injection is only little bit painful niah.

The Best Doctor In The World

It is by the way illegal to proclaim one to be the best of any sort in the medical fraternity.

But when Dr Og saw this pic:

I was inspired to make meself a new name card!

Now I just need to convince my HOD to print the card...

So what do you think you are BEST or MOST in?

New Year Resolution 二0一四 (Part 1)

Wah so fast another year pass.  During the countdown my friend was telling me it's the year 13 to 14 so in Chinese it's 一生一世，which means together for a lifetime. So romantic meh? As a lokun, we know life is not a solvil et titus advert. To me 13-14 is more like 一生一死, one live one die, hahahaha.... (4D also never tiok... chey!)

Anyway, its a brand new year and we are living in uncertain times here in ever changing Singapore. Dr Og has gotta make some new year resolutions to keep things  一生一世 instead of 一生一死!

Resolution 1: Learn Tagalog

Once upon a time, Hokkien was the real lingua franca in Singapore (don't believe what the history book say). Learn Hokkien and you could communicate with 90% of all folks in a hospital (patients and staff included), ar kar jeet (buddy buddy) with the Hokkien beng in your platoon (important coz they intro ah lian to you) and curse in style at the bicyclist who did not keep 1.5m from your precious Beemer! And most importantly, order a proper bowl of mee pok tar mai ter kwa.

Fast forward to 2014, Hokkien now has limited use, especially in the hospital ward. To have the best bang for the buck and for my time, Dr Og has decided that he has to pick up Tagalog. Whilst our dear Filipino colleagues surely speak England, learning Tagalog will allow Dr Og to eavesdrop on the nurses and also make it easier to order chickens... at Jollibean of course. Doing ward round and being the only non Tagalog speaking person can make you feel really lonely sometimes, even if you are the senior doctor leading the round.

Maybe after I learn Tagalog, Dr Og will finally be invited to Christmas party!

Resolution 2: Teach More

It's not like Dr Og don't take tutorials for students and junior doctors loh but now tutorials and lectures are more like infotainment than teaching. Due to 360 degree review, means students feedback will affect even senior doctor's performance. Wah! Like that cannot be too fierce... or stare to hard at some of the inappropriately short skirt and low cut blouse... ahaha. Instead, to garauntee good scores from students, better to allow them to walk in and out of tutorials, take phone calls from boyfriend / girlfriend and entertain them with the latest gossips in the hospital. Gone are the days when the students stand in attention and await with trepidations their turns to answer the tutor's questions. I'm sure the girls always had the easier questions! Damn kelong lor! But hor to all clinical teachers / lecturers out there, these days, must be careful, cannot anyhow be seen with students or chin chai accept their prezzies. Wait tiok lim kopi at Lengkok Bahru ar!

Anyway, for the betterment of medical education, Dr Og resolve to go back to the old school way in 2014. Teach with tough love! So students and trainees watch out!