Kuala Lampur, Aug. 5 -- Media people are a judgy bunch.

It comes with the job. A journalist with poor judgement won't be a journalist for long.

So when I saw another newspaper post screencaps of Hospital Kuala Lumpur's urinals overflowing with bodily waste, my first thought was that the sub-editor or whoever was posting the article lacked taste.

Yet isn't that our job as journalists? To decide what is relevant, and to make the relevant interesting?

I am very grateful for the public healthcare system.

Let us not, however, pretend our public hospitals aren't full of biohazards.

I'd managed the entire time, with cancer, before my surgery to not catch more than a very brief fever but it took just one night being warded in HKL to be down...