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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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House: Is it Worth Being Houseofficers?
Houseofficers are rarely asked, “Why did you not go home when ‘everyone’ was asking you to go home?” The other day at the gynae emergency, it was past 4 pm and this particular houseofficer was not on call. Earlier, she had seen a patient but was yet to review the patient with the SR. She…
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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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You Really Should Know About Lassa Fever … And More.
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…
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Spirituality and Medicine; Is there a Distinguishing Line?
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…
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The Japa Percentage: And Then There Was None…
“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,…
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Housemillionaires: the race to meet up with the N1Million housemanship saving target.
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…
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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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