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Category: Series
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House: The One We Lived at Work 13.
KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN READY AND AVAILABLE. IT SAVES LIVES. In our wonderful Nigerian system, an equipment or requirement is only available when you can confirm that you saw it with your two eyes and maybe even touched it with your hands. You have to be the doubting Thomas of the group, especially as…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 12.
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…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 11.
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…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 10.
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…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 9.
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…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 8.
Is the patient alright? It was 2am. My usual interrupted sleep cycle had waited a while before starting up its usual charade and that was because I was exhausted 😴😴😴. I would not have been surprised if I had been snoring sef. I picked up my phone and saw 16 missed calls. Okayyyyy ……
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 7.
Job descriptions I believe job descriptions and roles are vital in the proper running of any institution. They make sure the job is done. If there are no roles and everybody is left to take the initiative to do something, nothing will be done because everybody would be thinking somebody is doing the job,…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 6.
I Really Do Not Like Surgery. Aarghh! I am not sure exactly when my dislike for surgery started, how it sprouted and at what exact moment I was able to identify and define it. But I am certain I must have endured a lot of things that eventually accumulated to what it is today.…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 5.
At the end of housejob, I went to sign out with one of the consultants of that unit and he jokingly remarked that I came back so late to sign that the only thing he remembers of my time with the unit is how I cried that day. A memorable patient I’ll call…
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House: The One Year We Lived at Work 4.
Unit rotations Lets talk about the units we did not want to rotate through. Like, when the houseofficers, in their free time, start discussing their rotations, you hear things like, “eeyah, God is with you o. I am sure you will be fine”, whenever those units are mentioned as part of an individual’s rotation.…