I Know You Missed Me. I Did Too. Welcome Back. Even as I put on Chekwaa to start typing this part of the House series, I quickly muttered some prayers, “Dear God, I am only doing this because You gave me this gift and this series was inspired by You. Save me.” Most of …
Fiction Or Not? Iju Aluko was certain her mother was just having malaria. The windows had been left open for too long and it had been a while they sprayed any insecticide in the house. One can of Raid is almost a thousand naira. That in itself is enough money to make the family …
You Really Should Know About Lassa Fever … And More. Read More »
A Very Lit Weekend! Shout Out to the Peaches. This past weekend, I went on a trip to spend with the Girls, something I termed the Peaches Conference ’20. It was an amazing and fun weekend!!! I am super grateful for these ones I get to call friends. It is not everyone that gets …
Spirituality and Medicine; Is there a Distinguishing Line? Read More »
“Would you be traveling out or staying back in Nigeria to practice. If you are planning to ‘Japa’, what steps were you able to take towards that during housejob?” Believe it or not, 100% of the respondents to the quick survey said they desire, are planning and/or are already working on traveling out. And, …
It would be rare to find one medical student, near graduate, who does not have this plan as regards the one year of housemanship. It would be considered being directionless or in fact, with no future ambition if it is not at the back of your mind that the housejob year is the year …
Housemillionaires: the race to meet up with the N1Million housemanship saving target. Read More »
Unprofessional hoodlums in uniforms I am not sorry to say but that ward had the worst combination of nurses. They were not ready to do anything but they were ready to do everything to frustrate you. In fact, one of them once told me, “We know what to do if we want to frustrate …
A girl at the emergency There was a 16 year old girl brought into the Emergency Treatment Room with altered consciousness and running a terrible fever. She was having seizures, talking irrationally and crying, asking her mother to help her. Her mother in turn was crying to us to help her daughter. It was …
I was reminded by Dr. Adedotun that I did not rate Surgery department. My apologies. Surgery rotation rating Percussion: 5 Hands-on-skills: 4 Patient satisfaction: 8.5 Morbidity and mortality: 6 (Non)Toxicity of learning environment: 5 Total: 59% I am back… I know this series should have resumed a long time ago but you won’t blame …
I got quite a lot of awesome responses yesterday following the write-up on this topic. Apparently, housejob was a tough time that, according to a dear friend, requires having more than one different coping mechanism per department so that if one fails, you are not left hanging. And I totally agree. What happens the …
Support systems and defense mechanisms in the medical profession 2 Read More »
With the past episodes of “House: The One Year We Lived at Work”, I am certain most readers would wonder, so, how do these ones not lose it? How do they go through all these physical, emotional, definitely financial and psychological turmoil for years and still keep their heads on their necks? How …
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