Piyapha K, Author at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya

Advances in Surger – Our Thanks To Who?

I have been a doctor for over 40 years, and I can truthfully say I have seen only one miracle.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the information that as of 3 June 2015,

The medical “advice” to take two aspirins and ring again in the morning has been around for many years.

Surgeons can be the ‘prima donnas’ of medicine, if you like. It is the surgeons who get the headlines in the newspapers.

I was reminded of the famous distress call Mayday Mayday Mayday when I sat down to write this item a few days after May 1

If you come from the UK you will understand the reference to “her indoors”. An often used name for one’s wife.

Have you ever fallen asleep at your desk? More than once? Regularly?

I was reading some clinical reports on death rates for women. Breast cancer is the commonest cancer of women

The advances in surgery in the past 150 years have come, not through surgical technique, but on anesthetics.

Valentines Day is here again, and once more the do-gooders will be issuing warnings (and even condoms?) to love-sick swains.