Deserves no respect from me

Mr Knn came in to have his treatment done. As I start to debride, he pulled back his leg and commented that it was painful. I've explained that he should have been here a month ago and the skin is so thick that I've put a little more force to cut it down.

Out of the blue, he flew his rage at me saying that "if someone use a knife and cut your foot then u tell me u feel the pain or not"

(yeah rigghhht, but aren't we talking about your foot. So much for his concerns)

"Just cut the top part can already lah. Don't dig"

( might as well don't cut in the first place... Looks like I've got myself a foot master here)

*Again, he jumped when I tried to hold his foot in a stabilising position*

ME: Now, I'm doing it slowly and if you feel the pain, just say STOP or else I may cut your foot or myself unnecessarily if you pull your leg away


" If you not happy don't do the job la. It's okay"

Me: *fumes*


Why is it so hard when you try to explain at your best and that person kept on pressing the negative influence on you?

有些人很喜欢打咳睡

I attended a wound care talk recently with special invitation from BBN company. Oh my, there are so many oldies around except for the youngthings like us (pods).
I suppose BBN co had cordially invited mainly the Drs, nurses and foot policemen for this seminar held near the Parliament house.

We chose to sit at the last row of the place. It's amazing to see some of the 'men' in the house opposite us who were dozing off to sleep in front of the speaker. J managed to capture part of the 'dozing segment' on a digi cam. For a moment, all my aussie mates were thinking how rude the locals are doing that. G wanted to take a pic of another guy whose body was leaning to one side and head tilting close to another fella's shoulder. BUT she forgot to off the flash mode when she snapped the pic.That was really attention seeking man...... We couldn't help but giggle among ourselves on and off.
Talking about kiasuism. When the talk was yet to be ended, a couple of the lao ren start to make a move towards the buffet dinner.Gross!

Whatever it is, I had a good time with the mates plus free flow of red wine.
*peace*

The night on the weekdays


Reading a book, on my little blue reading lamp next to my bedside, listening to class 95PM in my air-conditioned bedroom.

I realised I've yet to adapt to watch TV in the living room just because of the humidity. The fact is I can't even sit in front of the plasma TV for more than 30mins , or else I'll start to perspire.

I don't even have the energy to think about 'pak -toh'. Sounds like a loser eh?

Express weekend recap

"Let's meet 1 pm for rollerblading at East Coast Park lah," suggested by friend who works as a PE teacher.

"Heng-nah Heng-nah," * starting to assume it's gonna be super duper hot weather. True enough, I'm 'or peh' (tanned skin) within minutes of my rollerblading session.

Moving on to my 3rd month of stay in Sg, I do find certain number of local clients of mine are rather entertaining.
On the positive note, they DO make my work more interesting and lively.

Very often, I always get comments or questions like these from my pts:

* Dr uh, can I swim even if I got ulcers on my legs*

* Dr uh, I want to get shoes but I don't want to pay now lah. I'm sure medical social worker will approve my subsidy*

* Dr uh, why you cut the dressing so big? Just cut small small pieces can already*

* Dr uh, why the shoes so ugly? Not so nice to walk when I already got a huge dressing on my foot. Got any other colours?*
Medical-surgical shoes are often supplied for patients with large wound dressing or post operation dressing on their foot. The shoes allows them to self-adjust depending on the size of bandaging on foot.

**note: No matter how much I emphasized to pts I am not a Dr, there is always a tendency that they have forgotten about it. 0_O

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I've noticed that a lot of FEMALE Drs in the wards are wearing terrible shoes. How on earth can their feet survive walking around in their low/high heels shoes whole day everyday.
Sorry to say to all the high heel lovers. Those shoes will only make your toes to increase the 'gripping' action and thus, hammer toes can start to form in the later stages of life (mainly).
Callus and corns may start to develop on the retracted toes with excessive pressures or ill-fitting shoes. hurhur.
That's probably where my bling will start rolling into my practice next time.
*evil laughs* heh heh heh

Snap Snap*

Last Saturday, I met up with Shan having big American (yo!) breakky at TCC (don't what it stands for).
As we were walking towards City Hall, there's this Olay roadshow going on. And this strickly thin girl came up and asked if we would like to have a free face massage, free mini makeover and a free photoshoot.

The winner for the photoshot gets to win $1k plus also get a chance to be on Cleo covergirl!

After finishing all the stations, we got home with some freebies from Olay! heh heh heh.

Olay Sensation for Ms Lek

Ready for the olay challenge?



Since Ms Lek has a special deal for hotel stays, Su and myself decided to make use of this fantastic opportunity to stay at Swissotel Stamford. I had one of the best views facing towards Clark Quay and CBD area. Swam at the 8th floor open pool with so many ang mohs around. Had a big breakky buffet varies from western styles to congee.




Swissotel for 2






Prefect view -I love it!

What's more I can ask for such a beautiful night and a glass of French wine *burp*

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So frigging pissed with my DAD!!! The door lift crushed my Easter choc bunny when I was entering. How can he do this to me????

My Choc bunny's head was totally smashed............knn

Justification wanted

Why should a Dr order 3 tubes of Iodosorb ointment (each cost approximately $20.64) on someone with a gangrene foot? Not as if the ointment will debride the eschar (black scab) or 'suck' onto the wound bed or provide a moist wound base.
The sad part is he/she is on subsidy basis during hospitalization. I just can't imagine what would the bills be like upon discharged.
Any health care professionals ought to be more tactful when certain interventions/treatments are issued for low- income patients.
Afterall, who wants to see healthy patients being discharged while having worrying hearts on the huge amount of billings accumulated since hospital admission.


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I haven't get a chance to start a war with any Drs yet.I anticipated it's just a matter of time. But what annoys me at the moment is I'm getting too many referrals from disciplines mainly from orthopaedics, endocrine, surgical, medical to sports medicine.
Can anyone tell me if heel pain is an urgent case or not??? If it's so urgent then your folks to ortho drs and have Z-plasty at the archilles or plantar fascia reconstuctions lah! ( I may be bullshitting on the latter).
The Drs here are like, the higher level they attained , the lower their EQ.
Tsk tsk.

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Wo Zhen De Hao Lei!