Archive for the “Off Topic” category

OFFTOPIC: A Look At What I’m Up Against

by Tony Hung on March 26, 2008

So today I had a mock / real exam of sorts which was painful, because its always difficult to hear how you need to improve, but excellent at the same time because we don’t get a lot of chances to (…)

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Tales From The Unit, Part II: On Making Impossible Decisions

by Tony Hung on October 19, 2007

At some stage in every medical trainee’s career, at some point you hear about someone describing being in a situation where not one, but *two* medical crises are happening at the same time — and there’s only one of you. (…)

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Tales From The Unit

by Tony Hung on October 2, 2007

I’ve taken a short hiatus from DJI as a result of higher-than-usual work loads at hospital. The next month may (or may not) be spotty thanks to the fact that I am working in the intensive care unit, where we (…)

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RIP: Robert Jordan of the Wheel of Time.

by Tony Hung on September 17, 2007

If there are any science fiction and fantasy fans out there, you might be saddened to hear that Robert Jordan, one of the masters of fantasy story telling, died today. His magnum opus, the Wheel of Time series, remains officially (…)

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Why Doctors Write Like “Chicken-Scratch”

by Tony Hung on August 12, 2007

File this under “off-topic”, but I couldn’t help notice a post by Mark Cuban (which has some how made it on to Techmeme), involving how he basically realized that he’s lost the ability to write quickly and take notes, as (…)

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