Original Article
End-of-life Issues—Preferences and Choices of a Group of Elderly Chinese Subjects Attending a Day Care Centre in Singapore
Doctors caring for elderly, dying and terminally ill patients are often faced with the dilemma of having to make difficult decisions especially regarding treatment...
Others
The Need for Collaboration Between Clinicians and Statisticians: Some Experience and Examples
Many areas of medical research require the application of statistical techniques. Although most clinicians are taught some statistics as part of their basic medical...
Review Article
End-of-life Care: Challenges and Obligations in Setting Limits to Life-sustaining Therapy
A patient with recurrent stroke disease and severe pneumonia did not respond to the previous courses of antibiotics. The medical team decided to switch...
Review Article
Laboratory Safety Aspects of SARS at Biosafety Level 2
In Singapore, the majority of patients suffering from the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) were cared for at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The dramatic...
Review Article
SARS Revisited: Managing “Outbreaks” With “Communications”
In the short span of 3 years since SARS first appeared on the Asian landscape, terms like “risk communications” and “outbreak communications” have assumed...
Others
Teaching Community, Occupational and Family Medicine at the National University of Singapore: Past, Present and Future
The Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine (COFM), previously the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), was inaugurated in 1948 as...
Review Article
Report of the National Myopia Prevention and Control Workgroup 2006: A Summary
The prevalence rates of myopia, including high myopia (spherical equivalent at least –6.0 diopters), are rising to epidemic proportions in Asia. Singapore has one...
Commentary
Medication Use in the Transition from Hospital to Home
Hospital discharge can be a complex and challenging time for physicians and patients alike. Patients are being discharged sooner, often in the process of...
Original Article
Clinical Skills in Final-year Medical Students: The Relationship between Self-reported Confidence and Direct Observation by Faculty or Residents
In clinical medical education, instructors train students in their medical knowledge and clinical skills. Medical educators also aspire to develop students’ self-confidence in medical...
Editorial
Preventive Psychiatry
In medicine, measures that save the most lives and improved the quality of life of millions have largely been public health measures that in...
Original Article
A Review of Fatal Road Traffic Accidents in Singapore from 2000 to 2004
As countries become more developed, there is often an accompanying rise in life expectancy. However, increasing motorisation that accompanies economic growth has led to...
Commentary
Videoconsultation to overcome barriers during COVID-19
Since February 2020, Government Restructured Hospitals in Singapore began deferring non-urgent outpatient appointments. This aimed to facilitate physical distancing and reallocate healthcare resources to...