Memoir of an intern doctor…day 69
I was tired today. I did the night duty It was a calm night. I had 3 hours of sleep. The longest you’ll have on a night duty here . Was a good day
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Memoir of an intern doctor….day 68
Its Saturday 6pm, I’m seated in theatre updating my blog for all the missed days😢. This could be the first time in about 4 days I’m having some free time. But I’m here in theatre hoping I’ll be given anaesthesia to work on this case. If it crosses on to tomorrow, then my day gets […]
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Memoir of an intern doctor….day 65
So today was my first night call duty on Surgery. Damn! All the surgery is studied came back to me in one night. Appendicitis, empyema thoracis, intussuseption, burns, fractures, pancreatic cysts etcetera I was lucky my second on call walked me through the night. We did procedure together. It was good
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Day 66
I have confirmed 4 deaths in the last 18 hours . the death rates in surgery are worryingly high. Mass causality. I had only heard of it. I experienced it tonight. Motor accident. 25 casualties. We were notified about 30min prior to their arrival , so we prepared ourselves. No deaths I appreciated teamwork on […]
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Memoir of a doctor intern…day 67
This is the third night I’m going to bed after 1am in a row. My body aches from all corners, my soul is tired and I’m craving fries
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Memoir of an intern doctor….day 64
Day 2 in surgery. I was in surgical outpatient for the greatest part of the day. One patient who had been done a prostate biopsy about 2 weeks ago picked his histology results and brought them to my colleague for interpretation. The results were negative for malignancy. We expected this to be very good news […]
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Memoir of a medical intern…..day 63
From shooting prostate biopsies, to seeing a patient walking into casualty with a knife stab in his chest, and being late on day one . in my defense, I didn’t know these guys hold theatre morning meetings. I guess I’m forgiven but Damn! I like it already. Not that I like it because this young […]
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Memoir of a medical intern….day 62
Its 1st December. Happy new month by the way. Today is the day I should cross over for my one month surgery rotation. But let’s just say I didn’t feel ready today I.e we work everyday , and I decided to start tomorrow. I’ll get some good sleep tonight and I’ll be back here tomorrow […]
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Memoir of an intern doctor….day 61
Yesterday we had our best fun day yet in Gulu. Club domes happen countrywide, and this time it came to Gulu. We got last minute tickets, which were by the way meant to be free, but we got charged. Well, it was a beautiful night. While there, I met a young lady I had treated […]
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