Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Govt postpones separation of drug prescribing, dispensing | theSundaily

Govt postpones separation of drug prescribing, dispensing | theSunda...
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Monday, 16 February 2015

Separate dispensary irrelevant

http://m.utusan.com.my/rencana/forum/pemisahan-dispensari-tidak-relevan-1.60...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Pharmacies to dispense medicine?

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/02/15/Pharmacies-to-dispense-medicines-if-proposal-accepted/ "Instead of getting their medicine from private clinics, patients will have to obtain it from pharmacies if the Health Ministry accepts the proposed “Doc­tors diagnose, pharmacists dispense” system."  The debate has been going on for quite some time. Should pharmacists who have arguably...
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Friday, 13 February 2015

Bones (part 1): Playing with the cells

Osteoblasts: synthesise bone matrix                     mineralise bone Osteocytes: osteoblasts that become trapped in the matrix they produced. Osteoclasts: play a role in bone resorption Bone matrix: consist of proteins (mainly collagen) and mineral Osteoid: Unmineralized bone matrix (consist...
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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

An absolute newbie's experiment with drawing

Houseman: "Pheww......Thank God you don't play hard to get!" Alright, I know it's downright ugly. And really it's kinda embarassing to post this, but here you go, my first drawing since primary school when I played with crayons. The picture was drawn in my ipad air, using the app "Tayasui sketches". I put my left hand on the table to act as a template and attempt to draw on the tablet...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

Passion to become a doctor???

(Like the previous post, this is also imported from facebook) Warren Buffett, world's second richest man, gave a talk to students of Nebraska in 1997.The topic is on how to stay out of debts. In the middle of the talk, during a short question and answer session, a young female student was given the microphone. She cheerfully asked the big boss: "How would you advise people who aren't necessarily...
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House hunting experience

(Ok, this is imported from notes I wrote in facebook. Due to the fact that it was written just last week in this pre-working holiday period, I decided to post it here as well) House-hunting began when I received news of the location of my housemanship posting. Remaining physically in Perak while searching for a house to live in Kuching has proven to be tough and challenging.Although there was...
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