Commentary
Thirty Years of Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Singapore General Hospital
“For patients transplanted for end-stage leukemia, it became apparent that a plateau was developing on the Kaplan-Meier plot of survival so that it became...
Enhancing Doctors’ and Healthcare Professionals’ Patient-care Role through Actortraining: Workshop Participants’ Responses
Workshops for “Applying Techniques from Actor-training to Performativity of Doctors and Healthcare Practitioners” were held in September 2013 and January 2014 within Yong Loo...
The Impact of Education Reform: An Asian Medical School’s Experience
The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) is the first medical school in Singapore and was...
Prevention and Management of Adverse Reactions Induced by Iodinated Contrast Media
Since the introduction of the fi rst iodinated radiocontrast media (IRCM) by Dr Moses Swick in 1929, it has been widely used in a...
Clinical Ward Rounds—Challenges and Opportunities
Doctors must provide safe and quality care in a respectful and empathetic manner weaved within a holistic perspective. The patients’ needs are complex and...
Zika Virus: An Evolving Public Health Threat
Zika virus (ZIKV), a relatively unknown arbovirus, has suddenly come under the spotlight of the media and is causing major concern in public health,...
Rate or Rhythm Control of Atrial Fibrillation – Pearls for the Internist
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly sustained cardiac arrhythmia. The prevalence rate of AF in the adult population is 1% in most Asian...
Is the Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) to Blame? Addressing Our Organ Shortage from...
In 1906, Jaboulay performed the first transplant surgery in the history of mankind. He transplanted a goat and porcine kidney into 2 different patients,...
From Bolam-Bolitho to Modified-Montgomery – A Paradigm Shift in the Legal Standard of Determining...
A new legal standard has just been passed in the Singapore Court of Appeal, to determine medical negligence with regard to the provision of...
Mindfulness: A New Paradigm of Psychosocial Care in the Palliative Care Setting in Southeast...
Alleviation of suffering in palliative care needs a combination of good symptom control and psychosocial care. Psychosocial care is defined as care concerned with...