The Pain Centre

02/03/2025

This person is a fraud she’s looking to scam you be aware

05/01/2025

It’s been a long time since I posted but I feel it’s necessary in current climate
Insurance premiums are going up
Ministry are fighting it by regulating private hospital charges they want to create fixed charges for “ straightforward cases “
A gentle highlight as to current facts
Private health care is inflated that is true but if patients scrutinise their bill they will quickly realise that specialist doctors fees are 1. Fixed and regulated and have not increased with inflation 2. 90% of costs are from hospital charges
Private hospitals are not a charity they are for profit
Fixing and regulation of private hospital charges will lead to cherry picking ie on an individual basis the population is ageing hence they will be areas of complexity in patients , if private institutions follow clinical guidelines ( and these are becoming more defensive due to inflated medico legal settlements) clinicians have to be more careful and aware and practice defensively rather that be guided by solely clinical indications as they will be held accountable for not ruling out the outliers of maybe 0.1%
Hence it will lower the threshold for sending any possible foreseeable complications to the government sector
There are many on social media picturing the doctors as “greedy “, ordering unnecessary tests , lacking empathy and humanity

If one can step back and observe that providing medical care is still a profession it does not mean that due to its “morality of vocation “ clinicians should be admonished and berated for charging a professional fee.
The cost of inflation has raised food , transport , utilities and yes tight up to luxury goods
Does the medical profession need to be the sole bearer of “goodwill” and give free services and discount based on this and the lack of bear the brunt of being socially and morally castigated ?

I love’ my job but I’m so very disappointed by the way my profession is judged for eking out a living based purely on the cost of services provided that is morally judged

So first to all my fellow physicians
Cura te ipsum, heal thy self

05/09/2022

A recent article in Code Blue highlights current concerns and hindsight’s into the possible move in medicalisation of ma*****na
It is time to be more aggressive and innovative in pain management… chronic pain is the single most debilitating/expensive and number one health issues surrounding decrease in productivity

25/07/2022

I’m trying to gather some basic information on pain and pain management in Malaysia I would appreciate if you could fill out this form it’s entirely anonymous thank you

25/07/2022

20/07/2022

UPDATE 18 Jul 2022: Recently, the Health Ministry had announced that they will be allowing the use of several medicine containing cannabidiol (CBD) next year. According to Khairy Jamaluddin, this decision was done after preliminary studies found that it might help patients with certain conditions. However, he had stressed that CBD products will only be available for medical purposes and obtained through prescription. Watch this space

Recently our Health Ministry announced that it would allow the cultivation of industrial h**p (a non-psychoactive strain of the cannabis plant) for the production of fibre and seeds solely for commercial purposes. While the date for said cultivation is yet to be announced, this move could be pretty....

19/07/2022

When we bring in CBD, it won’t be available over the counter. It must only be prescription. Once we have the products here, the doctors should already know how to administer it. There’s no point for us to approve licenses to bring in CBD when doctors have no clue how to prescribe them. That’s what will take a bit of time. So next year as an estimate is realistic,” – Khairy Jamaluddin, translated from Utusan. Watch this space …

14/06/2022

https://www.wionews.com/photos/thousands-gather-to-smoke-up-at-thailands-first-legal-cannabis-festival-487790

In Thailand, 3,000 revellers gathered under the moonlight to celebrate a major Thai cannabis festival following the Kingdom's decision to begin relaxing laws around the drug. Lets's take a look:

17/05/2022

15/05/2022

Denver—Chronic noncancer pain patients may find relief from an unlikely source, according to a team of Canadian researchers.