My Photos On Others' Website.

Its interesting to see how my photos used on other people's website. Some of them are used out of context. For example these photos below:



The photo of babushka was taken in 2010, however it is used current article depicting current Russia's economic turmoil.

The picture of boats was taken in Tok Bali, Malaysia however it is used on a Bali Travel website. Bali, Indonesia. Maybe the author got confused between these two places. Or maybe Malaysia is as beautiful as Bali, heh!

Nevertheless, it is good to see your images featured in other people's websites, like these:



My photos are also used on Rusian, Italian, Czech and German websites:



You can visit the websites by clicking respective photos.

For me, it is an appreciation to see your artwork used by others. I don't get any payment for the photos (a photos with creative common licence can be used by anybody, as long as they put a credit to the photographer), but it kinda lift my spirits. Maybe I should not retire from photography, not just yet.

If you are interested to see my other works, you can visit my website or my Flickr.

Till then. Have a nice day.




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Housemanship During My Time - Chicken Soup For Our Soul

A reminder for fellow colleagues and myself.

Recently I read a status update of a Facebook user, a doctor herself about a houseman's parents, who threatened to sue the hospital. The reason being their daughter, who currently pregnant had fainted in ward, while doing her job as a trainee doctor. The FB user then shares her experience, about her too getting pregnant during the housemanship and had an abortion. She also wrote about a colleague of her, who in her late pregnancy had an abruptio placenta (a complication) and the baby was not survived..also during housemanship.

The post get a lot of responses. Most of them condemned the houseman and her parents. Some shares their similar experiences, some even blame the lady doctor for getting married and get pregnant so soon, before the 2 years of hardship period ended. To sue the hospital maybe not the best action for the parents, but to expect other people to have had bad experiences as us experienced before is wrong too.

Yes, some years ago housemanship training was hard. My specialists and MOs always share their stories. They got scolded, got folders thrown at them, get yelled in front of patients and other colleagues, some even got physically abused. One of my specialist's friend is still under psychiatric follow up due to mental and physical stress he went through. Me myself had some, if not all of the experienced. We work overtime, wake up early in the morning even before the sun rises and go back late, after dawn. Sometimes we had to work for 36 hours straight. The shift system was not implemented until recently.

We all went through it, but do we want future generations to have similar experiences? If we went through hell 'during our time' doesn't mean that other people have to go through it too.

The phrase 'during my time' works, as a good reminder, to us, to the new generations, about how hard things were. But don't let it become a hindrance for an improvement. Time has changed, the system has changed and keep on changing. We must open our heart, strive for better. Let bygones be bygones. They are our juniors and it is our responsibility to teach them, to build their character, so that they become a good doctor and together we deliver the best service to all.



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Demi Masa

By the declining day,
Lo! man is in a state of loss,
Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.
[103:1-3]

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The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- A poem by Robert Frost

6 years back I had to choose between Russia and Malaysia, as my next chapter of life, and I chose that land of Soviet - the road less taken some would say. Sometimes I wonder what my life would be if I had chosen a different path. Do I regret? No one, including myself can answer that question.heh!

FOOTNOTE
Frost said his poem "The Road Not Taken" was tricky-very tricky. Three things make his poem tricky-the time frame, and the words "sigh" and "difference". Analysis of 'The Road Not Taken' here.

The 10 Golden Rules of Good Medical Practice

1. Practise with Kindness, Ethics and Honesty.

2. Upgrade Professional Knowledge and Clinical Skills.

3. Maintain good Patient Records.

4. Maintain good Communication with Patients and Relatives.

5. Maintain Doctor-Patient Confidentiality.

6. Allow Second Opinion and Referral to Colleagues.

7. Maintain good Working Relationship With Colleagues.

8. Be conscious of Cost of Healthcare.

9. Avoid Publicity, Self-promotion and Abuse of Position.

10. Be a Partner in promoting Global Health.

Taken from : DUTIES OF A DOCTOR
A publication of Majlis Perubatan Malaysia Malaysian Medical Council