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Hemostasis: The Coagulation Cascade
This supplemental section is added to the site as a separate post because the previous one, Hematology, was already too long. Hemostasis,...


DT6 | Deriving Trigonometry – Triple Angle Formulae
So last week we touched on using addition formulae to yield the double angle formulae. This article will explore how to obtain the triple...


DT5 | Deriving Trigonometry - Double Angle Formulae
In last week's section of Deriving Trigonometry, we established the following identities: In this section, we are going to build upon...


HSC1101 – Patient Care and Safety – Communication
So this module started off pretty dry, with an important skill: Communication. This is important for a healthcare professional, and this...


DT4 | Deriving Trigonometry - Sum and Difference Formulae
Sometimes we know the ratios of two angles separately, but not the sum of them. The question if it's possible to have an expression that...


HSC1003 - Health Systems
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the...


DT3 | Deriving Trigonometry - The Hexagon, and Pythagoras
So this third section has actually been covered by other posts on this blog - You may read up about the Magic Hexagon here, and you can...


HSC1004 - Psychological and Sociological Perspectives for Healthcare - Classical Theories
There are 8 parts to this module, and the first 4 covers the sociological aspect, while the remaining 4 covers the psychological aspect....


HSC1001 - Anatomy and Physiology - Cell Physiology
So the first lecture for Anatomy and Physiology was quite simple. Basically a huge recap for most of the things we've already done...


DT2 | Deriving Trigonometry - The Unit Circle
This segment will focus on building the intuition of expressing functions in terms of lengths around the unit circle. A unit circle has a...


Deriving Trigonometry: A Series
Recently, I looked back on how I learnt trigonometry and how schools taught it, and I realised that I've been trigonometry wrongly. I was...


General Form for Nested Radicals
It seems like as mathematicians, we like to find general forms to make our lives easier. Last week's example on nested radicals could...


Nested Radicals (Simple Example)
So it's been a while since we did some algebra. If you've stumbled upon the concept of Nested Radicals before (which is what I can only...
Book Break and Side Projects
It's been a while since I have posted, so let's address some of the issues (with me) here. So a while back I put the blog on hold because...


Tioman Vacation
Usually people spend 3 days at Tioman (or most nearby vacations). We opted for 4 days, over the weekend. So a few weekends ago I went to...
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