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A Family Doctor's Tale -HEADACHE
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DOC I HAVE A HEADACHE
Headache is a fairly common complaint in any family doctor clinic.
It is important to ask for
nausea,
vomiting,
stiffness of the
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:02:48 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - ALOPECIA AREATA
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DOC I HAVE A BALD SPOT ON MY HEAD
ALOPECIA AREATA( A Simple Guide to Alopecia) is a condition where the hair of the scalp would drop leaving a patch of bald area like a coin on the scalp.
The
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:56:18 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - WARTS, CORNS And CALLUSES
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DOC I HAVE A WART,CORN OR CALLUS
WARTS, CORNS And CALLUSES was supposed to be in the blog after skin infections but I decided the Common Cold and Influenza are more common illnesses seen by family
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:55:23 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - INFLUENZA
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DOC I HAVE THE FLU
INFLUENZA is probably the most common illness seen by family doctors all over the world.
There are more than 2000 strains of influenza virus which can mutate every few months
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:54:24 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - THE COMMON COLD
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DOC I HAVE A COLD
The Common Cold (A Simple Guide to Coryza(Common Cold))is one of the most common infections seen by the family doctor.
Unlike Influenza, the patient suffer more from
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:53:53 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - SKIN INFECTIONS
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DOC I HAVE A SKIN INFECTION
SKIN INFECTIONS are part and parcel of the types of diseases seen by family doctors.
Scratching of the skin is one of the causes of breakage of the protective skin
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:53:26 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - PIN IN THE FOOT
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DOC I HAVE A PIN IN THE FOOT
This memorable case was a 8 year boy who was brought by the mother to see me because of pain and swelling in his right foot for 2 weeks.
The mother gave a history of
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:52:45 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - FOREIGN BODIES And OTHERS
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DOC I HAVE A FOREIGN BODY
Children:
Children have a tendency to experiment with their hands.
Small objects like small marbles, parts of a toy,small coins etc may inevitably found their
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:52:11 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
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DOC I HAVE A PAIN ON MY FACE
Trigeminal Neuralgia ( A Simple Guide to Trigeminal Neuralgia)is pain in the face due to hypersensitivity of the fifth or trigeminal nerve which supply sensation to
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:51:23 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - GASTROENTERITIS
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DOC I HAVE DIARRHEA
Gastroenteritis is one of the most common medical condition seen in a family practice other than colds and coughs.
It occurs at all ages from babies to elderly
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:50:10 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - GASTRITIS
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DOC I HAVE A STOMACH PAIN
Gastritis(A Simple Guide to Gastritis) is a common medical condition in a lot of people including myself.
I developed gastritis after working night shifts in
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:49:34 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - ASTHMA & BREATHLESSNESS
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DOC I AM BREATHLESS
Asthma was another medical condition that affects the life of many patients.
Bronchial asthma has its origin in hereditary allergy - skin ( A Simple Guide to Eczema),
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:48:07 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - ARTHRITIS CASES
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DOC I HAVE A JOINT PAIN
Osteoarthritis (A Simple Guide to Osteoarthritis) is a joint disease which occur mostly in people above 50 years old although there are cases of people having the illness
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| (Published: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:47:26 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - RASHES
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DOC I HAVE A RASH
A rash is a very common symptom seen in a family doctor clinic.
A rash can be itchy and uncomfortable.
They can be painful in cases of shingles rashes, chickenpox and infected
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| (Published: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:44:08 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - MY COMMUNITY OF PATIENTS
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MY COMMUNITY OF PATIENTS
Patients consulting me at the clinic were mostly from the housing estate in which the clinic was situated.
There were 8 clinics all together in the whole housing estate
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| (Published: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:14:21 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - WORD OF MOUTH
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WORD OF MOUTH
Word of mouth as spread by your patients is the most important factor in the promotion of a family doctor's reputation and treatment.
In the 1970s there was no such thing as
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| (Published: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:14:25 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - MY OWN FAMILY CLINIC
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MY OWN FAMILY CLINIC
Midway though my group practice stint, I found that I had successfully for a housing board shop which I could use as a clinic for a reasonable rent of $1001( I tendered 1
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| (Published: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:36:17 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - MY FIRST PATIENT
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MY FIRST PATIENT
My first patient came on my first day of the opening of my clinic. I was alone in the clinic at that time doing some arrangement of medicines.
She was an old lady
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| (Published: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:47:44 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - GROUP PRACTICE LOCUM
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GROUP PRACTICE LOCUM
My wife and I have decided to set up a small family clinic in a new housing estate near our house about to start in 1974.
In the meantime we have to earn enough money to
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| (Published: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:40:43 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - FACTORIES, SHIP AND HOUSECALLS
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FACTORIES, SHIP AND HOUSE CALLS
On the very first day of work at the group practice, I was told to go to the PSA (Port of Singapore Authority) clinic to attend to patients. On the night
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| (Published: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:43:15 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - THE RUNDOWN FAMILY CLINIC
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THE RUNDOWN FAMILY CLINIC
It was a rundown family clinic in a nearby old satellite town with mainly people staying in public housing.
There were a few factories around the town where people
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| (Published: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:20:43 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - MEDICAL COLLEAGUES
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MEDICAL COLLEAGUES
The good , the bad and the ugly - as in any department, medical colleagues may be any of these.
However in the medical department of the Thomson Road General Hospital, most
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| (Published: Sun, 30 May 2010 08:22:38 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - MEDICAL LOCUM
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MEDICAL LOCUM
The compulsory 1 year houseman internship was over.
I have become a fully qualified medical doctor which also means a yearly registration fee of $25. This fee of $25 per
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| (Published: Fri, 28 May 2010 00:23:14 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale -VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
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VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
Barbiturates (the dolls in the novel and movie Valley of the Dolls) used to be the most common sleeping tablets in the 1970s. They have since been replaced by the
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| (Published: Sun, 23 May 2010 00:42:27 -0700) |
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A Family Doctor's Tale - INSECTICIDE POISONING
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INSECTICIDE POISONING
While the rich or middle class try to kill themselves with barbiturates, on the other spectrum the very poor has only insecticide to try to kill themselves by
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| (Published: Sun, 23 May 2010 00:41:53 -0700) |
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