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Mark ZY Tan (陈政逸)
@markzytan.bsky.social
www.markzytan.com
Anaesthetist/Intensivist 🩺. GM #POCUS.
Award-winning author✍🏼📘: Scars & Stains (Hawksmoor 2024). Broadcaster.
Naturalist/aspiring smallholder: 🐓🐝🍄🌱 Musician: 𝄢🎸🎻✝️
@dyslexicmedic.bsky.social and my Perioperative Medicines Management paper can be accessed via @fbmh-uom.bsky.social research explorer.

Loads of diagrams and tables - super useful for exam preparations. Check it out and repost!

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June 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Signed this copy of Scars & Stains in MFT library. Thanks for adding to your collection!
May 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Love how on this Mayo clinic book, faith and hope come before science.
April 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Presented prize-winning essay, toured Mayo clinic, saw Gibbons CPB machine I mentioned in talk, met some fantastic colleagues, made professional connections.

Great day at Anesthesia History Assoc meeting!
April 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Great to see this published @elsevierconnect.bsky.social after lots of work with @dyslexicmedic.bsky.social.

Almost 20 pages of drug tables, pathways, and peri operative guidances. Just look at these beautiful diagrams. Fantastic resource for exam prep!

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April 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Join me tomorrow at 8am (UK) or 3pm (SG) for an overview of intensive care - the mortality, morality and ministry. It will cover some concepts and ideas from the my book Scars & Stains, and about humanising intensive care.

soh.school/medhum-tan
April 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Speaking this Sunday evening at Platt church on critical illness and death.
#Christian #church #ICU
March 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hand a great convo with @drhannahlscott.bsky.social at MMH network seminar this afternoon about music in ICUs.

So busy in the last few weeks I forgot to advertise beforehand! Fortunately part of talk was recorded so hopefully will share that soon.

#medhum #music #ICU
March 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Opening quote for my essay Rivers of Life that won the Anesthesia History Association competition. Explores 3 “streams” of circulation in life support, challenges Eurocentric origins of CPR, and raises esoteric Qs about survival.

#AnSky #MedSky #ICUSky #Booksky💙📚
February 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My favourite post nights food! Makes me (and my girls) very happy :)

And when dipping sauce is homemade tamari it is even better.
February 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Here’s one for #Scanuary: wondered how beekeeping and #POCUS relate? Chap11 in #Scars&Stains explores pearls and pitfalls of POCUS in a seemingly dissimilar parallel.

amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW

@manoj-w.bsky.social @casualtysrus.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Channeled Brad Mehldau’s After #Bach, Wendy Carlos’ Switched On Bach, and the more traditional weihnachtsoratorium, in my final chapter about some different ways to think and talk about death and dying.

Scars & Stains (amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW)

#booksky💙📚#ICUSky #MedSky #MedHum #music #AnSky
January 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
#music in #ICUSky. 2nd prize HEE essay competition. Top social media impact piece ICM From the Inside 2022.

Scars&Stains: amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW

#medsky #booksky📚💙 #AnSky #guitar
January 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
See 1 do 1 teach 1. An old medical adage. How to balance need to teach in medicine and potential for mistakes?

Reflections on music education and this quote from Miles Davis.

Scars&Stains: amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW
#booksky💙📚 #AnSky #ICUsky #MedSky #music #bass
January 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Blues and Trouble is a complex and thought provoking tale about blues dancing, lung mechanics, antibiotic resistance, and temptation.

Won a Next Generation Short Story award.

Scars&Stains: amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW

#booksky💙📚#ICUSky #AnSky #MedSky #music #author #blues #guitar
January 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
From the “winds of change”, this chapter ends with a survival voyage.

Weill/Gershwin’s My Ship. 🎺
Scars&Stains: amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW

#booksky💙📚 #newbook #author #music #medsky #ICUSky #AnSky #MedHum
January 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Maritime analogies abound in this chapter about airway obstruction and tracheostomies. Opening quote from Gettys. Had the pleasure of performing with them and All Souls Orchestra during Northern Celtic tour 2012.

Scars & Stains: amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW
January 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Chapter 1: a Hanon warmup.

Overviews of the book sections: Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure.

Scars & Stains: lessons from intensive care.
amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW

#booksky 📚💙 #ICUsky #medsky #AnSky
January 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
And Star Wars ;). Closing lines of the chapter Ear on the Hive.
January 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Fulfilled the "glow of health" (Aegle), 1 of 5 facets of ancient Greek understanding of healing, personified by Asclepius and his 5 daughters. Also congruent to the Chinese wisdom of 樂先藥後 - Music before medicine. Note the remarkably similar characters.

Read more #Scars&Stains amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW
January 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I don’t know who you are B.Asfaw. But thank you for the lovely review of Scars&Stains (amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW). Humbled to be compared to such likes of Siddhartha Mukherjee and Atul Gawande.
December 29, 2024 at 9:31 PM
7 years ago today I won the @rcoanews.bsky.social photo competition with this photo of Miriam. How she has grown! So proud of her being concert master for Trafford music service junior strings concert last week😍🎻🎶
December 13, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Scars & Stains: explores some of the clinical, ethical, and moral dilemmas in modern intensive care, guiding readers to consider and discuss their priorities in face of life limiting illness.

amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW

Very gracious thread!
December 13, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Thanks Moira, Hannah (and Giskin on Goodreads) for these lovely initial reviews of Scars & Stains. Glad my efforts into crafting some “beautiful” literature within a highly clinical sphere has not gone unnoticed.

amzn.eu/d/aVEQTTW
December 9, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Book exchange with fellow SEAsian doctor and creative Razli Dalan. His new graphic novel Katan explores health behaviour, modern and traditional medicine, superstition, exploitation of nature, and human brokenness.

Great to catch up and congrats!
📚🦋 #newbook #medsky
December 2, 2024 at 7:12 AM