New online medical community: Tiromed

If you’re a physician, a medical student or a resident, then join Tiromed! You can search by groups, read articles created by the members, interviews, Member Spotlight, etc.
Come join this new online medical community !
Examples of articles for medical students:

N.B. You have to sign up first before you can take a look at the articles.

Surgery: [...]

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Awakening Hippocrates: A Call for Health Providers to Serve Where Most Neede

Dr. Edward O’Neil, Jr., a practicing emergency physician at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston and founder of Omni Med, voices his opinion on serving where is needed most.
What will you once you get that MBBS?

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World AIDS Day

Yes that’s right! AIDS is the disease alot of us will inevitably see as practitioners one day.
Let’s revise abit of microbiology here. HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) is a retrovirus with 2 serotypes – HIV1 & HIV2. It infects CD4+ cells of our immune system such as T lymphocytes and macrophages. This renders the immune system [...]

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Singapore’s healthcare system moving in right direction: expert

Transpose: We suck, but we are getting there.
Singapore has scored a 4 to 5, out of 10 for its healthcare system and that is according to Professor Michael Porter, a Harvard expert on competitiveness.
Professor Porter, Competitiveness Expert, Harvard Business School, Advisor – Asia Competitiveness Institute, said: “The spirit is closer to the value model than [...]

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Are you pro-life or pro-choice?

Abortion.

The touchy touchy topic.
Now what is abortion?
This post is prompted by a recent news report of increased no. of unsafe abortions performed in the U.S.

Balanced views on the net? This site seems to have it.
How is it done? One method is suction and curretage. Check the picture below:

obgyn anyone? this site offers [...]

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Virtual Surgery

hey guys! my sister somehow came across this game which i thought was pretty interesting. not sure if it’s 100% medically accurate though. enjoy!
Virtual Surgery

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Should doctors be made to pay for their mistakes?

A doctor who carried out a failed contraceptive operation has been ordered by a German court to pay financial support for the child that was born as a result.
The Karlsruhe-based federal appeals court ruled that the doctor must pay his former patient, now a mother of a three-year-old boy, 600 euros ($769) a month until [...]

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“The Journey Itself Is Home”

Our Minister of Health, Mr Khaw Boon Wan, spoke on 14 Nov 2006 at Parliament. He opened with a reflection of his trip to Japan with his wife. However, being a dedicated minister, couldn’t help but think about work even while on holiday. Apart from his philosophical inputs in the speech and what our current [...]

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