Maximizing Your Consultation With Your GP. Yook Tho Yin, Tim Pan Kor Kor, PJ.

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Wooden Clothes Peg used to mark the dishes at Yook Tho Yin

For many people, GPs play a very important role in their lives, from diagnosing common maladies that affect them to picking up more life threatening conditions that require further investigations and care from a tertiary centre. They usually act as a friend and a confidante, being privy to many problems that burden their patients.

Interior of Delicious Cafe at Dua Residency

Unfortunately, most of the time, GPs are usually very busy and consultation time is usually limited. In Western Medical Practice, history taking or the description of symptoms by the patient is a very important part of the consultation. A Western Trained Doctor cannot tell what is wrong with a patient by just taking the pulse, a fantasy best left to B grade TVB teledramas. If we lived in an ideal world, the GP should spend at least 30 minutes per consult, and spend some time taking your history and examining you and ultimately describing the treatment or advising you on further investigation like blood tests or imaging that might be helpful in the diagnosis.

Delicious Cafe

Below are some thoughts on how to maximize your consultation in that limited amount of time, in the Malaysian context.

Delicious Cafe

1. Time your visits when possible.

Mornings are usually not a good time to visit your GP. Clinics are usually crowded with people who have been fasting overnight to do blood tests, ladies who drop by after their morning exercise or marketing and the office workers who want a Medical Chit to exempt them from work. Your consultation with the GP will be more hurried due to the overwhelming amount of patients waiting outside. Most GPs do not practice appointments and in this less than ideal situation, try not to visit in the mornings unless of course it is an emergency.

Glutinous Rice Balls with Peanuts from Tim Pan Kor Kor, SS2

Evenings are a bad time too. Parents who have finished working will bring their sick child to the doctor and trying to get a consult after official clinic hours is a bad idea too, because the doctor would have been too tired from a long day. The best times are usually from 3PM to 5PM.

If the clinic is extra heavy and you find that there are other unresolved problems that might need attention, try asking the Doctor if it will be better for you to come back for another visit.

Red Beans and Soya from Tim Pan Kor Kor

2. Be Properly Attired.

Just some common sense. If you have a rash on your thighs, do not wear long tights unless you want to show of your undergarments too. It would be best to wear loose fitting clothes, especially if you are expecting an ultrasound scan or some other procedures to be preformed. The time spent on undoing clasps and buttons should be better spent at describing your symptoms and getting useful advice from your doctor.

Pickled Chili from Yook Tho Yin

Gentlemen should avoid wearing singlets. The tactile stimulation from the wet and hairy bush under the armpits while the Doctor attempts to take your BP will not endear you to him. Unless it is an emergency, try to be clean. Doctors are after all only human, and will appreciate any effort to make the consult as pleasant as possible. I am sure any ethical Doctor will tolerate anybody who smells like rotting fish if it is an emergency. Turning up with your hand covered in grease and leaving a trail of body odour that requires 3 cans of air freshener to hide the smell is just plain silly if you are just at the clinic to pick up your regular anti hypertensives. The Nurse would have to spend time wiping off the grease marks on the chair and table, time which could be used to see the next patient.

Sang Meen from YTY

3. Children and Clinics.

Try to leave you children who are not sick at home and do not bring them along with you to the clinic. Clinics are filled with sick people and Germs. It is possible for them to get infected as well. Children are naturally hyperactive if they are well (sometimes even if they are sick).

If Mummy is sick, please leave the children at home. Uncle Doctor will be very very distracted if Little Johnny treats the RM120,000 ultrasound machine like a PS 3 and Little Lisa jumps up and down the weighing scale like a trampoline while Mummy is being examined. It will be made worse if Daddy is discussing the stock market with his stockbroker in the background. It will be a natural reaction of the Doctor to hurry on the consultation. The examination room is usually not very child friendly and filled with electrical hazards and sharp instruments.

Preparation for a sick child for a consultation begins at home. There are many child care books that teached techniques of preparing the child for a visit to the Dr. Try to keep the child comfortable, and bring along his or her favourite toy. Again, fuss free clothing that are loose and comfortable will make it easier for them to be examined. For older children who are fretful of clinics, try playing "doctor" with them at home with a toy stethescope to familiarize them with the rote of physical examination.

Salted Fish and Pork from YTY

4. Be concise and precise about your symptoms.

Terms like giddiness means different things to different people. It could mean feeling like blacking out, feeling like the room is spinning for feeling some form of imbalance, all of which may have different causes. If you have had the symptoms before, tell the Doctor why you are particularly worried about the current episode. Is it more severe, or does it come with other symptoms as well.

Avoid vague terms like "uncomfortable". Use a language that you are really conversant with to avoid confusion.

Take note of any previous allergic reactions to medication and insist on getting the name of the medicine from the clinic. Jot down the names of any medication that you are taking or have taken over the past day prior to the consultation to avoid any undesirable interactions with the medication that the doctor is prescribing for you. A very interesting observation to note is that some people can remember all the top three prize winners for Magnum for the past month, but are unable to recall what medication they are allergic to.

Fish Head Curry from YTY

5. Ask

If you are in doubt, ask. A good Doctor usually will let you know why he thinks that your symptoms and signs fits in with a particular diagnosis. Make the Doctor discuss the treatment plan with you in detail, and ask for possible complications that might arise from both the disease and the treatment. But of course, ask intelligently. For instance, do not ask questions like where do bacterias come from, and in the process give your doctor a stroke.

Ginger Chicken

This blog post is mainly for entertainment value. Please consult your professional medical practitioner for proper advice.

One evening saw us catching up on Chinese food from a small papa and mama joint in DU. Yok Tho Yin serves Chinese food which is best described as hearty and affordable or boring and predictable, depending on how you see it. The price was certainly reasonable, a meal for 4 cost us less than RM100. The star of the night would be the Salted Egg Yolks Fried with Bitter Gourd, which was a lovely tribute to the usually morose and dour Bitter Gourd. It was lifted out of it's doldrums by the bright sunshine coloured yolks which provided an interesting flaky and powdery saltiness to this beautiful combination.



Desserts at Tim Pan Kor Kor was reflected by their crowd which would average around 23 years old. Full of hopes and unrealized dreams. Dish cafe is already well known and is a comfortable place to have a civil conversation amidst a beautiful interior. Food will be tried and tested favourites which is not really my cup of tea.

Yook Tho Yin
31, Jalan SS21/37
Damansara Utama
Petaling Jaya

Tim Pan Kor Kor
No 36, Jalan SS2/63
47000 Petalin Jaya

Delicious
Dua Residency
Jalan Tun Razak
Kuala Lumpur.

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Mixed Mushroom Soup

Big, robust soups are what interest to me this time of year - dainty broths punctuated with earthy mushrooms, starchy beans, long-cooked onions, or chunks of roasted winter squash. The arrange of soups as good as stews which are means to take their place during a core of a dish instead of being relegated to a side dish. This is just a arrange of soup we made over a weekend. we used a mish-mash of marketplace mushrooms, a bit of baked barley, as good as a great dose of onions. we gave it a bit of a Japanese season form by using toasted sesame oil as good as shoyu/soy sauce as finishing elements. Quick, hearty, as good as satisfying.

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As we discuss down below, we made this soup with barley, though it could additionally work good with wild rice or brown rice. You could additionally jump over a soy sauce as good as toasted sesame oil, as good as take things in an wholly ! opposite direction. A bit of smoked paprika as good as lemon creme fraiche might be interesting. Or what if we did a saffron yogurt swirl, similar to we did for this lentil soup as good as added lots of chopped chives to finish?

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And lastly - a few of us have proposed in progress recipes from a newly-released Essential New York Times Cookbook. we think we'll concentration upon it by November, as good as then pick an additional cookbook to concentration upon in December. Please stick upon us if we like! we learn much from spending time with individual books - as good as we gamble we will too. So far, I've baked Bill Granger's Scrambled Eggs, a variation upon a Poppy Seed Torte, as good as a Takeout-Style Sesame Noodles - we can see my records here. Judy Rodger's Warm Bread Salad is next upon my list. -h

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Tappers Cafe, The Sphere, Bangsar South

We visited the Art Village during Bangsar South recently in poke of paintings for the home. When you were done there, it was close to lunch time so you decided to eat during Bangsar South prior to streamer home. There weren't much dining choices here, so you got behind in to the automobile as good as gathering further down the highway to The Sphere during Bangsar South. We chose Tappers Cafe in the finish as it was the single of the some-more brightly lit as good as busier restaurants here.

Tappers Cafe decor is contemporary, desirous by colonial designs such as louvred windows, off-white walls, as good as white rattan chairs. Adorning the walls were black as good as white photos as good as antique lamps.

The menu here is pretty basic, serving both Western (bangers & mash, cake & crush etc.) as good as local specialities (nasi dagang, Hainanese duck chop etc.). They offer the set lunch on weekdays from 11am to 2.30pm, presumably to attract the working crowd around which area. All set lunches were served with the choice of sugar lemon, lemon tea, orange extract or muck leng ping.
I systematic the Fish & Chips set with muck leng ping (RM10.90). As you took my first sip of the muck leng ping, you was reminded of the sirap bandung you used to adore in secondary school. We did not have tall expectations of the food here, so you were gratified which the food was good cooked. The battered fish was nice, as good as crispy without being greasy. Even the chips were good as good as tasted freshly cooked. My only critique would be which the coleslaw should be served in the separate dish to stop the chips from getting soggy.

I the muck leng ping here

Fish & Chips served with coleslaw as good as tartare sauce

Hubby had the Caesar Salad set with Ice Lemon Tea (RM9.90). Again, you found the salad to be good prepared, even the croutons have been freshly prepared, so it still had the good crunch.

Ice Lemon Tea


Caesar Salad

We additionally systematic some onion rings (RM3.80) to share. They were light as good as frail as good as the batter was only right.

Verdict: A gratifying lunch during the very reasonable price.


Opening times: Monday to Friday 8am to 10pm; Saturdays & Sundays 9.30am to 10pm.
Location: Tappers Cafe, Unit G-1, Ground Floor, The Sphere, No.1 Avenue 1, Bangsar South, No.8 Jalan Kerinchi, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Tel: 03-2241 2963

GPS Coordinates: 3.111998, 101.662288

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