| Angeline Lee is a writer for the CEKU magazine, a United Kingdom and Eire Council for Malaysian Students (UKEC) publication, which serves as a platform for Malaysian students to contribute to intellectual thought while advocating for common hopes and beliefs (www.ceku.org) |
The other side of criticism
August 21, 2012AUG 21 — Each time the Olympic Games roll around, no matter where they happen, they form the centre stage for greatness as people worldwide watch with bated breath as records are made and superstars are born.Worldwide, viewers go “ooh” and “aah” as high jumpers soar over the bar, athletes sprint their way to glory and so on, but equally there are just as … Read More
That family secret
July 24, 2012JULY 24 — It was a swelteringly hot day in rural Ecuador. The double doors opened, and the nurses and doctors pushed a hospital bed out of the operating theatre.On the bed lay an adorable little baby boy, just waking up after his operation and beginning to move about. His family of eight had been anxiously waiting for him outside.They had travelled two … Read More
Watercooler conversations
June 26, 2012JUNE 26 — I’ve been reading an amazing book by Daniel Kahnemann, a Nobel Prize winner, called “Thinking, fast and slow”. In his introduction, he states that he wrote the book hoping to improve the quality of typical office watercooler conversations where people normally exchange gossip and other quick news.What is the quality of your watercooler … Read More
Of pens and paper
May 29, 2012MAY 29 — Recently, for one of the research papers we had to write for our orthopaedics and rheumatology rotation in medical school, we were asked to mark our own papers according to a preset marking criteria. Then we were to submit the paper and the mark we thought we deserved to our tutors, who would in turn mark the paper independently and compare what … Read More
Keep calm and carry on
May 05, 2012MAY 5 — It’s that time of year again when the laptops and books come out and the library is full of people walking around like they are cars looking for a parking space in Gardens Mid Valley.Somehow the make-up and swanky nice clothes and matching shoes have all been switched to shapeless hoodies, track bottoms and trainers. Everyone’s got a huge bottle or … Read More
Who runs the world? Girls
April 03, 2012APRIL 3 — Last week, at a conference, one of the consultant surgeons asked me what I planned to do in the future, but before I could answer he said to me quite seriously that he wanted to know what I wanted to do regardless of my gender.“Most people don’t pursue their dreams in surgery and other fields like trauma medicine because of their gender. I want to … Read More
Bridging the gap
March 06, 2012MARCH 6 — I was having a conversation with a few friends the other day and they were all reminiscing about the antics they got up to during their gap years before they started medicine. About half the people in my 250-strong year group took a gap year after their A-levels to go and “find themselves”, and the fluffiness of the concept was initially strange … Read More
The beautiful mind
February 07, 2012FEB 7 — I recently began my nine-week placement in psychiatry, and I have really been swept away by the complexity as well as the manifestations of disease of the human mind. This article is not to teach you psychiatry, or to argue its importance in the medical profession. I just want to give you an interesting five minutes’ read, and then I hope you will … Read More
An inconvenient truth
January 10, 2012JAN 10 — I think the time has come to ask ourselves the big questions about education.What is the point?What is wrong with how we are doing it?How do we change?I imagine that these questions are bantered around in Putrajaya quite often, but there must be something wrong, otherwise our education system would be evolving by leaps and bounds. So we postulate … Read More
The young and the restless
December 13, 2011DEC 13 — Last week on the wards, one of my elderly patients told me I was “far too young” to be talking to unwell people all day. The youngest medical students in the hospital over here are third-year medical students, who, on average, are between 20-21 years old.Can we wade through this whirlpool of emotions and emerge intact regardless? Yes, we can. In … Read More
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