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I'm inspired by the wish list from the Consumers Union Safe Patient Project group to write my own 2010 wish list. 1) I wish that Maine Hospitals and every other hospital in the US would adopt the entire 2003 SHEA recommendations for MRSA prevention. It works and there is no denying it. 2) I wish all hospitals would acknowledge MRSA as an ever present and evolving deadly infection and approach it as such. We now have a world wide ...
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Thanks to the kind intervention of Tengku Azmil and Tan Sri Lim Ewe Jin, Mom and I had the hard-to-come-by experience of flying home on Business Class yesterday. Our seats were bunked up so that I could be better rested. I could sleep in a 180 degree position. Between the flight from LAX to Taipei as we crossed the Pacific Ocean, I was awakened twice by headache. The first time I awoke, it took me awhile to remember that I was in a plane ...
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I could not help but be reminded of last year's sad incident of a committee member who suffered a heart attack, and died soon after in the Batu Gajah hospital. He was at the same table as guests of honour, YB V Sivakumar and YB Hee Yit Foong, and some district councilors, one of whom represented YB Fong Po Kuan. This year there was no VIP table and apart from some local ex-councilors, I could identify only two DAP veterans, Frankie Wong and ...
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