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	<title>Odysseys of George &#187; Medical</title>
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	<description>As life cruises along; vita non est vivere sed valere</description>
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		<title>Abraham Verghese: A doctor&#8217;s touch</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2011/10/03/abraham-verghese-a-doctors-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2011/10/03/abraham-verghese-a-doctors-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A moving talk &#8211; something for patients and doctors alike&#8230;..something we doctors have forgotten .. the human touch. As written on the TED, &#8220;Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolates and Valentine &#8211; are we getting too uptight?</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2011/04/18/chocolates-and-valentine-are-we-getting-too-uptight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2011/04/18/chocolates-and-valentine-are-we-getting-too-uptight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an editorial written in Surgery News by the esteemed lead editor, Lazar J. Greenfield, M.D. who is a Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University Michigan and also the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons. The editorial brought about complaints and eventually, the inventor of the Greenfield filter — a device placed in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As we lose that human touch&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2011/02/28/as-we-lose-that-human-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2011/02/28/as-we-lose-that-human-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elderly gentleman who saw me in the clinic a few days ago mentioned that many doctors don&#8217;t listen much to their patients and tend to utilize the many investigative instruments they have too easily that sometimes it is more a knee jerk reflex action. I have to agree as I myself have seen more [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[7th nerve palsy]]></category>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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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>We stand on the shoulders of Giants</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/03/31/we-stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2010/03/31/we-stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this while surfing through MMR blogpost. Even before reading it, I had sensed that this would be something that would move me. As I read the first paragraph of the post, I immediately realized that this was something long due and very appropriate &#8211; A tribute to the late Tan Sri T.J.Danaraj, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiology Quiz: Constipation</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/10/31/radiology-quiz-constipation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/10/31/radiology-quiz-constipation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young and thin paraplegic lady was brought into ED for severe abdominal colics and constipation for more than 3 weeks duration. The unsuspecting medical officer decided to do an abdominal Xray. From Radiology Quiz This is an easy guess. Her family was surprised with the finding which she finally admitted to know about. She [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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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>Fishing in different context!</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/01/04/fishing-in-different-context/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2008/01/04/fishing-in-different-context/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young boy swallowed a foreign object and presented to us a few days later. He was otherwise well but the parents were very anxious. This was his Abdominal Xrays. A closer look: What is that? > > > > > > > > > > So we decided to go fishing. We put in [...]]]></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>Radiology Quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/14/radiology-quiz-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/12/14/radiology-quiz-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give it your best shot! An elderly lady claimed to have fell off a chair hitting the back of her head on the floor. She was seen in Emergency Department and was told to be well. 2 weeks later, she was having difficulty in breathing and also had episodes of vomiting which did not allow [...]]]></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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		<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>My Short Singapore Trip</title>
		<link>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/23/my-short-singapore-trip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gcgeorge.net/2007/09/23/my-short-singapore-trip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gcgeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, NUH conducted its first international GIST symposium and I just had to be there to learn the updates on GIST(Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours). It was an excellent symposium covering the entire aspect of GIST from the molecular levels upto what the future holds for GIST. It was on the 13th September and thus, I boarded [...]]]></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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