Narrative Medicine: An unexplored perspective in the medical curriculum to enhance patient-centredness and empathy in medical students

Posted Posted in Review Articles

Authors: Chandramani Thuraisingham, Sivalingam Nalliah. ABSTRACT A medical narrative is a physician-patient dialogue, where the physician listens carefully to fragments of the patient’s story, while interpreting their hidden messages and word sequences, as well as observing their gestures and body language. This aspect of the therapeutic relationship contributes to deciphering symptoms which are not apparent […]

Gender, citizenship and health-related quality of life: An overall perspective from Malaysia

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Authors: Makmor Tumin, Ahmad Farid Osman, Nurhidayah Abdullah, Sook Lu Yong. ABSTRACT Objectives: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an essential dimension of overall human quality of life, in which disparities have been hypothesised between women and men, as well as between citizens and non-citizens of a country in past literatures. This study is to […]

Occult primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Posted Posted in Case Study & Report

Authors: Yong-Ting Tai, Chin-Voon Tong. ABSTRACT We report a case of occult primary spontaneous pneumothorax in a 30 years-old woman. She developed symptoms and signs that were suggestive of pneumothorax. However, chest radiograph failed to reveal pneumothorax. Therefore, we proceeded with computed tomography (CT) thorax which revealed significantly moderate right pneumothorax. The diagnostic approach and […]