Memoir of a medical doctor….day 37
Never ever take a walk through causality department if you’re not on call/duty. You will either end up being on abrupt call there or you will be the causality. A few nights back, a colleague called me to go perform a cesarean section with him at around 9pm. It was his night duty on obstetrics […]
Memoir of a doctor intern ….day 36
I have suffered from Migraines for the past 9 years. And my worst memories of medical school point back to those nights when I had migraines and couldn’t study, and times when my parents had to pick me from hostel at night to take me to the hospital. Those have been my worst moments as […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 35
Everyday is different, and everyday brings different troubles and different joys. And the biggest highlights of my days sofar are almost always patient related. Those who burst out in tears, some confide in you, some shout at you, some are thankful, and some curse you. Once I was clerking a 45 year old patient , […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…day 34
Sundays are meant to be sunny days, and church days for Christians. But I haven’t been to church in months. This whole past week, I’ve been thinking about how Sunday service will be like at Watoto church Gulu. I literally spoke about it daily. But this morning served me with a different kind of sauce. […]
Memoir of an intern doctor …day 33
Weeekends. What are weekends? Is it a person? Is it food? Is it the president of Uganda? Is they we? Are we they? We don’t know such things as weekends here in internship. Its 6pm, I’m not even on night duty, and I’m still on ward working my ass off as I should be doing. […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 32
While on night shift, i rushed through the theatre changing room to get this patient on table as soon as possible because her unborn baby was already compromised despite resuscitation. Guys, in the whole struggle and rush , i forgot to tie the strings of my theatre pants. And you can guess what happened. They […]
Dr.Nahurira Violah. A journey of very many years…. GRADUATION😋💖
26th October 2019 . I could never be happier and more thankful to God. When I prepared for my graduation, it was more about what will I wear. The dress, the shoes , the hair, the cake, the food. I kind of forgot to prepare myself emotionally. Didn’t think I’d cry so much while giving […]
Memoir of an intern doctor……..day 23
Wednesday has always been my happy day of the week. And today it came with great blessings. I’m taking off my first leave as an intern. Call it Compassionate leave. You must be wondering….but how? Its just 23 days. Well guys, my graduation is in 3 days. Saturday 26th October, its going down in mbarara, […]
Memoir of a medical intern…day 22
Today I met a colleague returning to his room to rest. He stopped me and he had one sincere and polite request….. He wanted a therapeutic hug. Last week , I was called to ICU to confirm death. Monitor read that the patient had died about 20 minutes ago. There was no need for me […]
Memoir of a medical intern…… Day 21
Been on call yesterday , and because it was Sunday, my day started as early as 8:00 am attending to emergencies till Monday morning today . this time I didn’t get to shower before the morning meeting. I crossed over to the next duty because I had to give a night report at 8:30am. Meeting […]