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Jan 28, 2012

been reading...

Anne had been married about a year when one day the she came running up to her husband jumping for joy.

Not knowing how to react, the husband started jumping up and down along with
her. "Why are we so happy?" he asked.
...
She said, "Honey, I have some really great news for you!"

"Great" he said, "tell me what you're so happy about."

She stopped breathless from all the jumping up and down. "I'm pregnant!" she gasped.

The husband was ecstatic as they had been trying for a while. He grabbed her, kissed her, and started telling her how wonderful it was, and that he couldn't be happier.

Then she said "Oh, honey there's more."

"What do you mean more?", he asked.
"Well we are not having just one baby, we are going to have TWINS!"
Amazed at how she could know so soon after getting pregnant, he asked her how she knew.

"It was easy" she said,

"I went to the pharmacy and bought the 2 pack home pregnancy test kit and both tests came out positive!"

Here's the real guideline for Management of Twin Pregnancy by RCOG.

Jan 27, 2012

Jan 24, 2012

There are many reasons for any medical practitioner to fall in love with the practice of surgery. Subconsciously, the short period of time when you have the patient’s internal organs on your finger tips – it is almost god-like. This could just be the main raison d'être for anyone to fall in love with surgery. Conversely, the fear of screwing up with all those bloody live human organs on your hands is partly the reason why others fell out of love with surgery.

The other small, tiny perk of surgery is that little small talk while one operates. Rarely, the patient would be awake to hold a conversation with you, ie conscious brain surgery or when patient only on local or regional anaesthesia.

Here’s a small talk that I recently had, while assisting, inspired by the Chinese New Year song heard from the radio in OT.

Surgeon: So, the next year is Dragon Year, right?

Me: Yup. This year is Rabbit.

S: So fast came back to Dragon, I used to remember that the millennium was Dragon year.

M: Yup, luckily it’s Dragon, and not Dog,Rat or Rabbit. Like this year Rabbit, a lot of people bought rabbits, mainly for good luck, and then do not properly take care of the animals.

S: Hmmn. That’s bad. Good that it’s Dragon. They can’t buy Dragon, right?

M: Yup, they don’t exist to be bought.

S: How about other years?

M: There are Cow, Tiger, Snake, Horse… I doubt anyone would keep Cow or Horse.

S: So, what do they do during Tiger Year? They go for tiger show?

(Taken aback. Almost speechless. 2 minutes of pause)

M: Haha, no, they go to touch Tiger in open zoo or some temple in Thailand.

And that was the last surgery that I had taken part in before the year of the Dragon.

Happy Chinese New Year!!! Hope everyone have high-flying, wonderful Dragon year!!