This year design

Today, while waiting for someone at the corner of Oxford street, I took this photo. Women's boots are not pointed ones this year, I noticed.

X-mas shoppers

Today (the first of December 2007), I popped to London Oxford street to buy a couple of shirts at Debenhams. Once I came out from the tube station, oh my god, a sea of people on the street, walking and shopping. Some part of Oxford street was closed, so people were on the street.

A BLONDE'S DREAM

A blonde keeps having the same weird dream, so she goes to her doctor.
Doctor: "What is your dream about?"
Blonde: "I am being chased by a vampire..."
Doctor: "So, where are you in this dream?"
Blonde: "I am running in a hallway."
Doctor: "Then what happens?"
Blonde: "Well, that's the weird thing. In every single dream, the same
thing happens. I always come to a door, but I can't open it. I keep
pushing the door and pushing the door, but it won't budge!"
Doctor: "Does the door have any letters on it?"
Blonde: "Yes."
Doctor: "And what do these letter spell?"
Blonde: "P.. U... L... L..."

Source: a friend of mine emailed me.

Are you the risk person to suffer heart attck or stroke?

You can predict yourself if you are going to have a heart problem (angina, heart attack) or stroke over 10 years. But you need to know your Blood pressure, Total cholesterol level and HDL (high densitly lipoprotein level).

Basically, male sex, smoking, high cholesterol,high blood pressure and diabetes are well known risk factors for heart attack and stroke.

"Here is the culcluator"

Who to treat


If CVD risk > 20% over 10 years , you need to change your life style and take cholesterol tablet. Bring down the Blood pressure if it is high.

Entertainment system for patients

You can see a monitor on the picture. You may have already known it. It is not for heart monitoring, but it is to entertain hospital patients. It is 3 in one or 4 in one device as far as I know. It has got TV, Internet access and phone line.While lying in the bed, sick people can enjoy BBC programmes, can surf the net and can talk to their relatives and friends. It is provided with top-up card. I saw this facility in many UK hospitals. In fact, before introducing this network, portable TV rental service has been running in most hospitals for many years, I think.

a lunch at work

A couple of months ago, I moved to hospital accommodation. I don't cook. I normally have my lunch at hospital canteen. In the evening, I get ready meals from nearby Sainsbury and Tesco.
Picture is one of my lunch meals with meat ball, spring green and some chips.

What is British economy

if you read this news article, you may learn about British economy in brief.

1 in 3 UK commercial buildings foreign owned

One in three British commercial properties now have foreign landlords, but that ratio is set to dip slightly next year as real estate prices cool, a report from insurance firm Royal & Sun Alliance said on Wednesday.

According to the property investment underwriter, overseas-based investors directly own 22 percent of all commercial real estate, compared with 15 percent in 2000, before foreign buying of UK property really took off, driven by demand for office buildings with sitting tenants on medium-term leases.

Full on Reuters

DOH is stuck with court ruling

DOH is stuck with court ruling (They are thinking really hard for the next move)

Medical graduates from outside the European Economic Area

The Court of Appeal have found against the Department of Health in consideration of BAPIO's appeal against our guidance to limit international medical graduate access to junior doctor specialty training posts.


The ruling means that we no longer have the option of issuing the guidance for 2008 on which we were consulting that prioritises UK medical school graduates for specialty training posts. We face the prospect of a large number of applicants competing for places.



Doctors from outside Europe have made and continue to make a huge contribution to the NHS. The issue is not, and never has been, whether they can continue to work as NHS doctors - which they can - but whether the taxpayer should be investing in training them instead of UK medical graduates.

We will now be studying the ruling alongside responses to our recent consultation on the issue, as well as exploring all other options available.

Future e-updates will contain more details on this important issue.

Click on the link below to read the document that was published for discussion and feedback on international medical graduates for more background information:

http://www.mmc.nhs.uk/download_files/IMG%20Consultation%20PDF.pdf

Verdict for overeas doctors

Dear Friends,
All three judges ruled that international medical
graduates should be treated on par with medical
graduates from the Britain and the European
Union.Please read the full article below.

The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
(BAPIO) won a judgement on 09 November 2007 in favor
of international doctors living in the UK. The ruling
found that guidance handed out by the Department of
Health (DH) to National Health Service (NHS) employers
was unlawful and international medical graduates
should be treated on par with medical graduates from
the Britain and the European Union.

The appeal was heard by Lord Justice Sedley, Lord
Justice Maurice Kay and Lord Justice Rimer and all
three were unanimous in their ruling that the DH
guidance was wrong.

The controversial guidance suggested that NHS
employers should look first to British and European
Union medical graduates to fill NHS training posts
before hiring international medical graduates in
Britain under the UK Work Permit scheme or the Highly
Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP).

"We are delighted...this will reduce stress among tens
of thousands of doctors who are providing excellent
care every day within the NHS. This judgment means
that these International Medical Graduates can
continue to be treated on merit in any recruitment
process," said Dr Raman Lakshman, Vice Chair for
Policy for BAPIO.

Dr Buddhdev Pandya, Corporate Advisor to BAPIO, is
happy with the ruling but hopes that the situation can
be put behind all those involved.

"This was a landmark judgement and now is the time for
us all to work with the Home Office and Department of
Health in a constructive way to heal the wounds and
build up again a diverse and highly trained
workforce," he said.

Funny Mathematics

A friend of mine sent me the following mathematics.

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS

Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
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OFFICE ARITHMETIC

Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
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SHOPPING MATH

A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.
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GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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HAPPINESS

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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LONGEVITY

Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
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PROPENSITY TO CHANGE

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
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DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE

A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.