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	<title>Odysseys of George &#187; Health</title>
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	<description>As life cruises along; vita non est vivere sed valere</description>
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		<title>Orthopaedics vs Anaesthetist &#8211; A must read</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/07/21/orthopaedics-vs-anaesthetist-a-must-read/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/07/21/orthopaedics-vs-anaesthetist-a-must-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this from an email that was sent to me &#8211; and after watching it, I could not stop laughing. It is so true! So enjoy! otherwise you can see it here.&#8230; Dedicated to all my orthopaedic friends and anaesthetic friends out there]]></description>
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		<title>The Issues in Heathcare.</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/06/07/the-issues-in-heathcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today in the newspaper, the Director General of Health spoke on a few issues namely: 1. The exorbitant fees in private practice 2. The failure of medical curriculum 3. The loss of human touch 4. Mushrooming of medical schools 5. Quality of Housemans Lets look at the issues which actually has been around for ages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A must see!</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/06/07/a-must-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always wanted to watch a stage show &#8211; a theater, a musical etc. Recently, I managed and I was left in awe of the show &#8211; so much so that it still seem like it was just yesterday I watched it. Maybe, I could relate to it at many levels &#8211; and thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triggering Your Body to Burn Fat</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/20/triggering-your-body-to-burn-fat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/20/triggering-your-body-to-burn-fat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from article written by Martica Heaner, M.A., M.Ed., for MSN Health &#038; Fitness Burning Fat When your body moves (or any cell in your body does any type of ”work”) it needs energy. The amount of energy needed is measured as a unit of heat—or a calorie. The fuel to produce this energy comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mammogram Quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/13/mammogram-quiz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/13/mammogram-quiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[48 year old lady presented with bilateral breast lump. On examination, vague breast lump at upper outer quadrant of both breast. Negative risk for malignancy. Had a procedure done in a beauty parlour 25 years ago. Any guesses?]]></description>
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		<title>Does this ring a Bell?</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/06/does-this-ring-a-bell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/06/does-this-ring-a-bell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The elderly lady above demonstrates a case I saw in my clinic recently, but my patient was way younger in her early 30s. She developed this weakness over the left side of the face which was rather sudden in onset 3 days prior. She was otherwise very well and there was no history of trauma, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dyspepsia</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/02/dyspepsia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/04/02/dyspepsia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it has been some time since I have written anything medical based. So, I was thinking and realized that for something so common this particular problem is so little discussed with public. Then again, I guess the reason being that despite knowing much about it, we still find this a difficult issue to treat. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiology Quiz 5</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/08/27/radiology-quiz-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/08/27/radiology-quiz-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 14 year old boy, presented with sudden episode of bleeding per anus. Both OGDS and colonoscopy was negative and the bleeding persisted. He was then referred to us for an angiogram. Any idea? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Well, with that in hand, we took the patient into OT and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rare Bleeder or is it really?</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/07/18/a-rare-bleeder-or-is-it-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/07/18/a-rare-bleeder-or-is-it-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lady in her late 40s presented with passing black tarry foul smelling stools (malaena) for a few days prior to admission. This was the second episode after the first being a few days earlier.She was admitted then but was discharged home on a negative finding on endoscopy. On the day of admission, she fainted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decompression Illness (DCI) &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/04/07/decompression-illness-dci-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/04/07/decompression-illness-dci-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many divers are introduced to this complication of diving during their basic open water course. However, many still are unsure of what decompression illness is all about, even those at much higher levels in their diving career. To make things worse, many medical personnel are also unprepared to handle such cases due to its rarity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food for Thought!?</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/01/10/food-for-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/01/10/food-for-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feed small kids small fish Last updated: Monday, January 07, 2008 Small kids should eat only small fish to avoid building up dangerously high levels of mercury, Australian health officials warned on Sunday following research on three Asian families who fed their children a rice and fish porridge called congee. Their children, aged 15 months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Rounds Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/17/pre-rounds-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/17/pre-rounds-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to hosting the Grand Rounds last week, I was interviewed by Nicholas Genes, for the Pre-Rounds Medscape Med Students. The interview article was actually posted on the 12th November. Please feel free to check it out. Surgeon Dives Deep to Display Photos of the OR and the Ocean Floor Posted 12/11/2007 Nicholas Genes, MD, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandrounds 4.12</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/10/grandrounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/10/grandrounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 21:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Odysseys of George. I received many submissions of which I had to make a choice. As the morning comes, I greet you with the scones and tea I laid out for you earlier. Now, I present to you, Grand Rounds 4.12 with a diving theme. Gear up your booties and wetsuits and carry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medscape Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 12</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/05/medscape-grand-rounds-vol-4-no-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/05/medscape-grand-rounds-vol-4-no-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/05/medscape-grand-rounds-vol-4-no-12/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was an honour when I was asked to host a blogrounds. Grand Rounds is the weekly collection of the best in online medical writing. Each week, a doctor, nurse, patient or healthcare professional hosts Grand Rounds and compiles links to noteworthy posts about medicine. Well just to inform all my fellow bloggers worldwide, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we that gullible?</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/03/are-we-that-gullible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/03/are-we-that-gullible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat in my clinic, another doctor walked in and carefully unfolded a neatly wrapped paper. He then showed me the contents and asked me to guess what it was. I know it isn&#8217;t clear, but care to guess? &#8220;They look like gravel&#8221;, I answered. He smiled and said he thought as much. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APHS &#8211; Asia Pacific Hernia Surgery Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/10/26/aphs-asia-pacific-hernia-surgery-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/10/26/aphs-asia-pacific-hernia-surgery-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 3rd APHS Congress and it was well done. The pre-congress was a workshop with lectures in the morning and hands-on TAPP procedure performed on pigs. The congress went on the following day with the opening ceremony starting about 12pm. The congress was held at Suntec City, Singapore. The dances for the opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Haemorrhoids?</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/27/is-it-haemorrhoids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/27/is-it-haemorrhoids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well again and again, we are met with patients who were either wrongly diagnosed as having haemorrhoids or patients who by their own intelligence decided to diagnose themselves as having haemorrhoids. Not all swellings that arise around the anus equals to haemorrhoids and not all bleeding from the anus is due to haemorrhoids. The pictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another post to boost anti-shark fin campaign. Yes!</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/22/another-post-to-boost-anti-shark-fin-campaign-yes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/22/another-post-to-boost-anti-shark-fin-campaign-yes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaws, the return STAR 16th September By Dr ALBERT LIM KOK HOOI The poor maligned shark in food and medicine LIKE Yao Ming (NBA basketball star), I pledged to stop eating sharkâ€™s fin soup and I have kept to my word. This is because much of the sharkâ€™s fin we eat is from fins cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vanilla pudding with pepper seeds &#8211; or is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/22/vanilla-pudding-with-pepper-seeds-or-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/22/vanilla-pudding-with-pepper-seeds-or-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey check out this new recipe! Well, sorry to cause some loss of appetite but this is actually a gallbladder filled with numerous stones and was filled with pus! In other words, Empyema of the Gallbladder! Well, how did this happen? On of the larger stones impacted the cystic duct that connects the gallbladder to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just too young to die</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/08/29/just-too-young-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/08/29/just-too-young-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having worked in a paediatric surgical unit and frequently get referrals from paediatric oncologist, I still cannot understand why should God allow children to suffer from such misery? Yes, it was a genetic mutation but it just feels wrong. As perfect a creation we seem to be, that is also how imperfect we could be. [...]]]></description>
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