patients’ lives. I wanted to be a physician who is well equipped with medical knowledge and training to help those in need as I find it a stimulating and meaningful profession. To make sure that my ideal matches with the reality, I job shadowed Dr Tan in Klinik Malaya when I was in Malaysia. It was heartening to observe Dr tan attend to each walk-in patients professionally, conducting the assessments carefully, all the while maintaining her patience and empathy. She also skillfully switching between the
Home birth is not an unusual occurrence for certain areas in our country. It has been practiced by traditional midwives and untrained birth attendants for many decades, since before the existence of modern medical facilities and hospitals. However by improving our health care system for pregnant women, it has managed to reduce catastrophic complications that lead to maternal and perinatal death. Why then are there still a few women keen for home birth although they have access to local area hospitals
and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1994. 5) Correspondence to Helmut Drexler, MD, Medizinische Klinik III, Hugstetterstr 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. 6) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses — United States, 2000–2004. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Nutrition is essential to healthy aging; it has been shown to play a vital role in the development of dementia, memory loss, vitamin deficiencies and stroke. An estimated 10%–30% of people over the age of 65 suffer from Vitamin B12 deficiency most commonly caused by malabsorption. It is advised that people over 70 years of age obtain 2.4 μg/day of Vitamin B12. People suffering from inadequate Vitamin B12 levels can experience fatigue, weight loss, weakness, depression, memory impairment, heart attack