Looks like you can never have enough of sex. 918 men were selected in this study between 1979 and 1983. WOW! it has been more than 20 years…. and those men who were in the high orgasmic frequency group were having sex at least twice per week. I really wonder how they kept that up… They were 46-59 at the time of recruitment …. so now they should be around 66-80…. I find it hard to believe!!…. I guess in a small place like Caerphilly in the south of Wales, they have nothing else to do!!!

Also note that the test for trend between all cause mortality and frequency of orgasm were just marginally statistically significant with p values close to 0.05. In simple terms, it could be by chance that such a result is achieved.

There are more questions than answers. But it is a wonder how the media makes fallacies into facts. It is juicy for sure. Of course sex therapists will promote this…. you know even a dog does not have sex 2 or more times a week!!( I think lah.. just to stress a point for those vets who may be reading)… how many actually achieve this????? not many for sure…. business opportunity for sex therapists,perhaps….

and by the way, not many will say that marriage will be good for health..

Our new Health Minister started his job with the utterance of his first agenda. The waiting time. It has long been infamously known that waiting times in hospitals and clinics nationwide are way too long ranging from an hour till 4 hours at some places. His predecessor has worked to alleviate this problem to no avail. The increasing patient load does not commensurate with the workforce in healthcare. Increasing patient expectations does not go in tandem with progress in the healthcare sector. Mind you, the long waiting time is not confined to Government centers but private ones as well although the problem is more acute in public hospitals and clinics.Why? How can our Health Minister tackle this problem?

There are no easy answers but one glaring problem is manpower management. The management of human resource especially in the healthcare sector is appaling. Doctors remain overworked, underpaid and under- appreciated. Top management personnel are not in touch with the ground staff. The different categories of healthcare staff remain fragmented and totally unsynchronised. The bottomline, lack of corporate culture, profesionalism and disiplin of the top management themselves. The very thing that they propagate, they themselves lack.

We need a good management team. We should not harbour those that have proven to be fruitless. We need a total revamp of the system. One example of a poor system is that of hiring foreign doctors. These doctors are paid higher than their Malaysian counterparts. They get to choose where they wish to serve. This despite having similar qualifications and on top of that, poor command of Bahasa Melayu and even English!!! Where on earth are foreigners treated better than locals themselves. We have been suckers all this while to accept such behaviour.

The system in Malaysia is like a funnel… Pour all that water and it comes out through one hole.. Yes… top managers will individually come up with a bright idea of a programme and implementation will be by only a few groundstaff. Top managers do not familiarise themselves with the actual environment that layworkers have to endure. Their occasional meteoric rise is questionable and riddled with suspicion.

What has all this got to do with waiting time? Well , that is the least of our problems. If we want to increase productivity, we need to motivate our healthcare staff. We need a good management that can allocate human resource in needed areas and can identify problematic areas effectively. Then will waiting time decrease accordingly. We can no longer sweep dust under the carpet and assume everything is all and well. Wake up!!!