Designing a psychological preparedness toolkit for healthcare workers in the wake of COVID-19: A Singapore perspective.

• The COVID-19 pandemic is a tensile stress test of the robustness of healthcare emergency preparedness measures. • Fear of the unknown, uncertainty, and anxiety are risk factors for burnout and trauma in healthcare workers in the wake of a pandemic. • A reliable and accurate psychological preparedness toolkit for healthcare workers is important in reducing stress and anxiety.

Alive with the sound of music: a case series on patients presenting with musical hallucinations in a general hospital.

Musical hallucinations are a rare phenomenon that renders appropriate identification and treatment a challenge. This case series describes three women who presented with hearing complex, familiar melodies in the absence of external stimuli on a background of hearing impairment.