Internship
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 201
Its 23 days in my internal medicine rotation. Confession loading………,……………… I kinda miss the drill in the surgicals. It was busy, hectic and all, but I miss being tired after a good day of learning and saving lives. These past 23 days, I’ve worked..yes, but it feels like the longest weekend of my life😂. When […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…Day 200. My HIV test fever!
Image showing a positive and negative test. (Image got from the internet) Its one thing asking your patients about their HIV status and declaring them serostatus unknown because their last test was over 3 months ago, and its another having to throw the same question to yourself as a health worker. I can confidently declare […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…Day 197. My migrainer perspective
I’m writing this post not as a doctor, but as a patient. Because I’m an occasional Migrainer. Every time I have a migraine, ( 8 years now), I always wish I didn’t understand the physiology that could be happening in my head. I cry, I stress from understanding the possible complications and possible future progression […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 177
We’re half way with internship. Its 6 months today baby, and my skin glows even better than before😊😊…isn’t God good?😊 Before internship, colleagues told me the work load at my internship site would be overwhelming and I’d loose myself including the weight😂. On the bright side, I knew I was going to lose some weight. […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 173
#sadTales Once, I wheeled a dead body in a wheelchair . the caretaker had failed to wheel, I offered help, when I got to the destination and decided to help the old man get to his bed, I realised he was actually dead. He had been dead the whole time she had been wheeling 💔😧
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 171
I stayed at work for you, please stay at home for me! Remember my post 7 days ago when I said my country had no COVID 19 case? Well, it hit us. We had a case the next 2 days. And two days later, 8 more announced in one day, making matters worse, we have […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…day 164.
Its another #COVID-19 day on this planet. My country Uganda is still Corona Virus Free. Today the President had a state of nation address. All schools are closing with in 7 days for the next 30 days. No burials, no weddings, no church services, no bars, no gatherings of any sorts. Now this is helpful, […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…day 163
#COVID-19 I don’t know what to say. Been quiet for weeks and now I’m not even sure if the air I take in daily isn’t 100% Corona Virus I’m at a point where my country, UGANDA is still #COVID-19 free, but I don’t think it is. I can feel it. Its already here, probably it […]
Memoir of an intern Doctor….day 154
While doing a side room procedure on a post partum mother , we heard a baby crying in the corridor. This mother goes on to say Musawo,(to mean doctor) I hear my baby crying. The shock on my face. I first ignored thinking she was tryna make a joke yet and I was tryna focus […]
Memoir of an intern Doctor….. Day 145
I have thought of specialisation in different fields at different times because a new thing makes my heart beat every other time. Today anaesthesia, tomorrow orthopedic surgery, then community medicine, obs gyn, paed ,then psychiatry, then ENT, then medicine….cardiology or oncology. Clearly I have had my mind travel. But last night’s call as I walked […]