MEDICAL DIARY - The Federation of Medical Societies of Hong Kong

VOL.14 NO.1 JANUARY 2009
Contents
Editorial
� Editorial 2
Dr. Bernard BL Wong
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
� A New Look in 2009 3
Dr. Chun-on Mok
Medical Bulletin
� Chest Pain - A Guide to Our Daily
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Clinical Practice
Dr. Bernard BL Wong
� MCHK CME Programme Self-assessment Questions
� Antiplatelet Therapy for Atherothrombotic
Diseases
Dr. Wai-hong Chen
� Updates on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention 19
Dr. Clement PY Lee
� Electrical Device-Based Therapies for Heart
Failure
Dr. Godwin TC Leung
� Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation 27
Dr. Yui-chi So
� Lipid Control for Heart Disease 31
Dr. Tsan-fai Chan
The Cover Shot
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"At the Window"
Life Style
Dermatological Quiz
� Dermatological Quiz
Dr. Lai-yin Chong
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Federation News 36
Society News
� News from Member Societies 36
Medical Diary of January
Calendar of Events
� Meetings
� Courses
The picture was taken with Hasselblad SWC/M on
Ilford Delta 400 Pro and scanned with Nikon coolscan
LS-9000ED.
A semi-circular "turret" space in the private library of
Professor Dachling Pang, a renown paediatric
neurosurgeon in San Francisco.
The House was built in 1883 by a wealthy German
immigrant. The style of the house is "Queen Anne",
one of three classic styles in Victorian West Coast
Americana architecture. The chairs are Malabar chairs
from India. To your left is a Victorian Standing desk,
similar to the one favoured by Winston Churchill at
Chartwell mansion, Kent. To your right is the corner
of a Georgian mahogany desk from England. The
table lamp is a converted railway signal lamp from
the early 19th centuary, also from Britain. Circular
rug is from Persia.
This part of the library of Dr Pang gives me a sense of secluded serenity. 21st century San Francisco
is seemingly fended off from the interior which represents more of a slice of the 19th century, of
course apart from the Snoopy in the shade which is very much of the last century.
Dr. Dawson Fong
MBBS(HK), FRCS(Edin),
FCSHK, FHKAM(Surgery)
Chief of Service and
consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
NT West Cluster
President, The Federation of
Medical Societies of Hong Kong
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