From breaking news and opinion pieces to getting up close with our people, Tomorrow's Medicine brings you the best from SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre. Take a look back at some of our most engaging stories in 2017:
1. "I confronted mortality in the ICU" Dr Lucy Davies witnessed the intensive care unit (ICU) as a place where we push life to the boundaries. It is where patients recuperate and regain life to reunite with loved ones, and also where we medical practitioners realise that sometimes, even our best efforts are not enough to save their broken bodies.
The Ministry of Health announced that it will reorganise the public healthcare system into three integrated clusters to better meet the nation's future healthcare needs.
As a medical student, Dr Trevor Tan did clinical rotations in Singapore General Hospital. In this article, he shares how an encounter with a patient during that posting made him ponder deeply about the sixth sense that needs to be developed and honed by physicians.
SingHealth nurses will be donning new uniforms designed to create a cohesive identity across the eleven institutions. Unveiled at the SingHealth Nurses' Day celebrations on 25 July 2017, the new uniforms will be rolled out in phases from 2018.
Renowned art therapist and research psychologist Dr Cathy Malchiodi explains the relevance of art-based therapy in healthcare today, and how patients can find common healing grounds in art-based therapy.
We humans are not perfect, and that's probably why we occasionally fumble doing the simplest things. However, there are moments when we are actually set up to fail. Here are eight errors you might have encountered at work or at home which you shouldn't bash yourself too hard about. By Yin Shanqing, Senior Principal Human Factors Specialist, KKH.
Sengkang Health (SKH) treated their construction team to lunch, to thank them for putting in the countless hours of hard labour in building the Sengkang General and Community Hospitals.
Hyflux, the company known for their water desalination plants, has tied up with Changi General Hospital (CGH) to conduct the first human clinical trials of the company's ELO Water on Type-2 diabetes.
Herbal remedies: They have poetic names and you can find one for every ailment, but they can also be dangerous – scientists from Singapore and Taiwan have now linked some to liver cancer.
10. Run Brian, Run! Like the famous movie character who took what life had to offer and ran with it, Dr Brian Chan made the most out of all the "chocolates" that his medical school life at Duke-NUS has had to offer him, to prepare himself for life as a clinician.
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