A grandfather clause is a provision whereby an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule applies to all future cases. In this episode I will describe how "the grandfather clause" affects medical practitioners in Malaysia

What is a kickback? The dictionary describes it as an illicit payment made to someone in return for facilitating a transaction or appointment. Fee splitting is the practice of sharing fees with professional colleagues, such as physicians or lawyers, in return for referrals.In this episode I will discuss how kick back and fee splitting has infiltrated Private Practice in Malaysia

Maternity hospitals were popular in the 80's and 90's. Before joining Mahkota Medical Centre, I actually toyed with the idea of opening my own maternity centre. In this episode I will be talking to Dr. Jaspal Singh, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Park City Medical Centre who was running a maternity centre for many years before joining a private hospital. He will give his experience working in 2 compeletely different types of medical facilities. 

Credentialing and Privileging  is a process that every private hospital have to undertake for all physicians practicing in that hospital. It is important for doctors to understand this process and to be prepared for it. In this podcast I will discuss my experience with Credentialing and Privileging  and I will give some advice to doctors planning to move to private practice. 

Disposable instruments are commonly used by surgeons especially during lapararoscopic surgery.  Disposable instruments are expensive. Can we reuse them instead of throwing them away after single use. Is it ethical to reuse disposable instruments? In this podcast I will discuss my experience using disposable instruments and give some advice to young doctors venturing into private practice. 

Medic Foot prints Malaysia is an organisation by doctors for doctors, with  doctors' wellbeing at the centre of their focus. With Industry 5.0 already  on the horizons they believe that doctors should not be boxed into just one field - i.e. clinical. Healthcare is such a vast and wide ocean that  needs more input from doctors. Medic Footprints Malaysia aims to support doctors in all  stages of their careers, from medical graduates to consultants, who want  to make the transition out of clinical medicine and also doctors who  chose to remain in clinical medicine.  

The common thinking is that self- improvement should be the domain of those in the universities or public hospitals and that a private practitioner’s duty is only to provide service. I beg to differ. In his book entitled “ The Anatomy of Success’ the late Dr. Rakesh Sinha said that there are 2 types of people in the world: the learners and the non learners. The best doctors are the ones who want to constantly improve themselves: the learners. By doing so they are providing the best treatment to their patients. In this podcast I will give 15 tips on how to be progressive in Private Practice.

Providing a guaranteed income is a common method used by private hospitals to entice doctors to join them. It provides a sense of security to the doctors who are leaving government hospitals to go to  private practice. In this episode I will be talking about my experience with a guaranteed income and what does guaranteed income mean in Private Practice.

There are many private hospitals in Malaysia. Most of them are owned by government linked organizations or by business man. Very few are actually owned by doctors. Today we are fortunate to have Mr. Timothy Chang who works for a private equity firm, TPG capital and they have set up hospitals where doctors become part owners of these hospitals. This is a very interesting concept and we will learn more about this from him.

In this episode I will try to explain what is a difficult patient and how I deal with them.