Imperfections

This is from one of the forwarded emails. You may read it through.

Imperfections---

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arri ved on ly half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course , the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream
"I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."

The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?"

"That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them."

"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, t here would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

And send this to any or all of your Cracked Pot friends ! : )

Bloody IT

Doctor recruitment website for the new system of training for junior docs to become consultants www.mtas.nhs.uk has been offline due to a big security breach after a series of errors of shortlisting the applicants.

The security breach came just a day after the department was forced to block a loophole in the site which allowed the private details of applicants to be read by anyone typing "info" after the site address.
Reuters news

I am just wondering who the responsible person is. These days, security should be top priority. I suspect those IT men don't care about our confidential data. Withot having enuogh knowledge , I have no idea why they took the contract to run doctor recruitment web service. They are really bloody IT. I think prosecution would be only option in this civilized era.

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An injection appeal in Britain

During the last week, our team had to see outlier patients. Basically I review patients first and I discussed with my consultant if needed. You may don’t know what outlier patient is. For example, if a patient with nerve or brain problem is placed in chest ward for some reason, he or she is the outlier patient of neurology and the neurologist has to go and see that patient as his outlier.

In this hospital, outlier patients are a little bit different. Those who are not medically serious and ready to go home, but still need to be sorted out their social and other issues, are put under the care of outlier team.

Well, on Last Wednesday, 36 year-old-chap who is a known multiple sclerosis came in with some minor recurrent attack. Plan was to give 5 day course of intravenous injection. He is apparently well and no reason to stay in hospital for once a day injection. So I have to organize to get intravenous injection as an out-patient.
I never thought that it was a difficult job. But in the real situation……

In fact, his wife is a sister working in our hospital. But British rules and regulations do not allow doctors and nurses to give medical care to the close relatives and next of kin.

I phoned to his GP who declined to do so. They did only intra-muscular injection in surgery, not intravenous injection.

So I tried the district nurse who normally does home visit for dressing and medication and so on. The same answer was given.

And then I contacted to the Intermediate Care Team whose function is to look after recently hospital discharged patient if needed. They said they don’t have enough capacity to do so.

There is a day treatment centre in our hospital. They said they open only 3 days a week. So not possible for 5 consecutive day injection.

A&E department is out of question. They only deal with emergency patients.

I tried MAU, Medical Assessment Unit. They declined again as they have got a great deal of workload with acute patients all the time. ( I know that fact very well)

Finally CDU in-charge sister agreed to give intravenous injection to my pity patient in her department. CDU is Clinical Decision Unit who takes GP referral. At that department, hospital doctors see patients referred by GP and deicide to admit them or not.

On that evening time, patient went home after waiting for an intravenous injection agreement for nearly the whole day.

UK Copyright Law:: Some facts

Basically I am not a great music fan. I hate most noisy Rap music apart from Eminem. I can't believe those stuffs have been very popular in Burma. I think in Britain where Pop is still on the top position, the rap represents only for a group of people.

I appreciate the talent of musicians. I know the stories how clever producers made money on young popsters. But sometime I feel music industry has been over-protected by copy right law whilst I understand I must obey the law. This morning, I googled the UK copy right law and I found out the following interesting points.

Duration of copyright

The 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act states the duration as;
1. For literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works
70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies.
If the author is unknown, copyright will last for 70 years from end of the calendar year in which the work was created, although if it is made available to the public during that time, (by publication, authorised performance, broadcast, exhibition, etc.), then the duration will be 70 years from the end of the year that the work was first made available.
2. Sound Recordings and broadcasts
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was created, or,
if the work is released within that time: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first released.
3. Films
70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last principal director, author or composer dies.
If the work is of unknown authorship: 70 years from end of the calendar year of creation, or if made available to the public in that time, 70 years from the end of the year the film was first made available.
4. Typographical arrangement of published editions
25 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published.
5. Broadcasts and cable programmes
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the broadcast was made.http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law

Hospital and Piano

DSC00030, originally uploaded by drjamesbright.

This grand piano can be seen in the main entrance hall at Queen's hospital. Some people come and play especially during the weekends.
Thanks James for the photo.

Queen's hospital and my colleague

DSC00013, originally uploaded by drjamesbright.

Today I visited my colleague's blog though which I got to his flickr photos. We used to work in Queen's hospital last year. Most of the time we were in medical assessment unit, dealing with emergency medical patients and experiencing many pains and little pleasure . Now we are in different hospitals. This Queen's hospital is one of the busiest hospitals in England, with capacity of about 960 in-patients.

Check here for Registered UK doctors

My class mates, whenever we met on g-talk or Yahoo messenger, living across the world frequently asked me about our friends residing in the UK . I have lost contact with them after living in a busy life style. But we can at least check on GMC (General Medical Council) if they are still registered with it. Generally that means they are still working here. If you want to check,click here and enter surname or forename whatever. You can see a list of our people.

Today’s NHS and Britain’s neo export

You may be aware that British manufacturing industry has been going down in this decade while it has to sit on the service industry. With a rapid growth of the latter, too many oversea doctors have flocked together in the UK. As a consequence UK graduates find it difficult to get their jobs. Many have moved to Australia and New Zealand. A friend of mine got married happily a few years previously. Now she has to move to NZ along with her psychiatrist British hubby who could not secure his job in Britain.

A few year back, a group of NHS heads decided to change training system in the hope of a better training for junior doctors. With the new system, a newly graduated doctor would become a consultant in 11 years time instead of former 14 years. I don’t know the dream will come true or not. But today, NHS job market has been chaos. Many doctors have got less attention on patient’s care as the situation has made them worried and frustrated.

Now the pathetic NHS managers are trying to put a new measure for jobless doctors…Voluntary work abroad!
Well Britain will export doctors very soon.

Jobless doctors 'to be shipped overseas'

Up to 10,000 young doctors who are unable to find jobs in the NHS could be offered voluntary work overseas. An estimated 34,250 doctors have applied for just 18,500 training posts. According to official documents leaked yesterday, the plan was drawn up by NHS managers following the botched introduction of an online appointments system, which could leave thousands of junior doctors without training places this summer..Full story

Jobless junior doctors may be offered VSO work
Guardian Unlimited
A rescue package to find jobs for up to 10000 junior doctors whose careers are in danger of being blighted by a controversial NHS selection procedure includes plans to send some to do voluntary service overseas, a leaked document revealed yesterday.
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How much are you rich?

Well, in my previous post, I just reported about Britain's tops and some outstanding persons you may know very well. Ok ... you may want to measure your wealth. If so, go to chennel 4 to learn which level you are in.

Britain's top 2 are immigrants

Britain’s wealthiest man is Lakshmi Mittal. He was born in Sadulpur Village, in Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington, London. He is the 5th richest person in the world and the richest Indian, with a fortune of U$32 billion according to Forbes.

Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich (who is originally from Russia) remains at Britain’s number two overall with an estimated worth of £10.8 billion.

The world's richest footballer is David Beckham, 31. His wealth has reached to £112 million, and is ranked at world’s 619. He was born in Leytonstone. It is only 15 min drive from my place in East London.

Simon Philip Cowell, 47 is also a big winner in the pop world. His fortune is now about £100 million. He is best known as a judge on the television programs Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, and American Idol. He is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and often controversial criticism of the contestants.

Britain’s richest chef is GORDON RAMSAY, 39, worth £67 M so far. He earns money from his TV shows, restaurants and books I think.

Sources:
http://www.itv.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://independent.co.uk/