It is parliamentary election season in Singapore now and there are several firsts this round. The most significant to me personally are that I will finally get a chance to vote, and that there is an infectious diseases physician contesting this time as a candidate for the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), one of the older […]
Since yesterday, we have finally started our video interviews for our SG50 Project on Infectious Diseases and Singapore. The interviews are filmed by a team from Campus TV from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, who will also produce the documentary. We are immensely indebted to our interviewees, all of whom have agreed to give of their valuable time […]
While writing the previous post about Prof Lim Kok Ann, I wondered about other local doctors who are/were also good chess players. There is no association between the two of course – skills needed for chess are not necessarily useful for a physician’s work, and vice versa. Still, there are a number of doctors who at some […]
I came across a short article on Prof Lim Kok Ann today while reading the Straits Times, commemorating the week he became Dean of Medicine at the National University of Singapore in 1965. His signal achievement in medicine is remembered by few in Singapore now, but he was the first to discover and describe the […]
A middle-aged (late 50’s) housewife presented with fever for 4 days, associated with headache and photophobia. There was no significant contact or travel history, and her only chronic medical condition was hypertension for which she was on atenolol (a beta-blocker). Brought in to the emergency department by her husband and son, she was found to […]
Coincidentally, on the same day I posted my mini-rant about responsibility for antimicrobial resistance, Prof. Michael Edmond, Richard P. Wenzel Professor of Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University also wrote a post about the state of infection prevention programs (no longer “infection control programs”) in the U.S. at his influential blog. It is interesting to […]
Reading through several articles and reports on antimicrobial resistance, I came across a news story about a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas outbreak linked to duodenoscopes at Huntington Memorial Hospital in the U.S.A. This is not the only outbreak linked to endoscopes this year – the more noteworthy event occurred at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre, with 7 ill and 2 […]
Less well known than it should be, the Patient Care Centre (PCC) can be found within the grounds of the Communicable Diseases Centre at Moulmein Road. It was established in 1997 to support the poorer patients with HIV/AIDS, and to reduce the stigma associated with the disease.
A young woman who was 33 weeks pregnant presented with 2 weeks of low-grade fever associated with an enlarged right cervical lymph node. Fine needle aspiration of the lymph node had been performed by an ENT surgeon, showing an epithelioid granuloma and reactive follicular hyperplasia. TB PCR was negative. Serological testing results are shown below: EBV […]
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