DR NAHURIRA VIOLAH
WHY ARE WE IN A HURRY?
You must wonder… what a question? And i’ll ask again. Why the heck are we in a hurry? Speaking from a mental health perspective, i speak with all honesty. I know atleast 6 people who have contemplated suicide in the last 2 months, i know atleast 10 or so people struggling with depression and i […]
Tales of Sickle cell Disease in a Northern Uganda children’s ward.
Knowledge is power, and ignorance is not necessarily bliss.
THINGS SCHOOL NEVER TAUGHT US
By the time we are 25, many people are done with campus, including the bigger fraction of those who do long courses like medicine or law. one day we are students of very different subjects, the next day we are supposed to start living responsibly and doing all the things right. There’s no excuse for […]
My Happy 25
Hello! I have been so away, it’s not an excuse because I can write in just afew minutes if I want to, daily. But while I was away, I was growing 😊. I turned 25 yesterday. All my life I used the phrase “I’m a young girl”. But today, it odly sounds odd. I don’t […]
Your Anti-Covid Mocktails could take you to hospital before Covid-19 does
2020 hasn’t been most people’s cup of tea. We saw the worst of many things this year, and worst of all, we saw the worst of pandemics the modern world has seen, COVID-19 . we have lost friends, relatives, religious leaders, government leaders and worst of all, we have lost health workers who sacrificed their […]
When buying land.
Generally speaking , there are very many things to look out for when buying land. Today I’ll just outline basic things to look out for, with the main emphasis being in the direction of how to help you not buy that already belongs to someone else or how to be sure you’re buying land not […]
The value of land
I’ll spare you the finer details of the equivalent of a plot, hectare, acre, mile, in terms of measurements. I have a friend who says land is priceless. He believes land shouldn’t be sold or bought but should be owned by government and leased out to people according to need. This actually takes me back […]
The future, a crowded future
When we talk of the future, many times we imagine it in terms of technology. Probably flying cars, no smoke, Apps for literally everything, a clean and sparkles world. Today i thought to myself what the future would look like in terms of the population and how we will occupy the never increasing land. People […]
Job Hunting
If you’ve followed my blog closely over the last 5 years, you definitely know this post is coming at the right time as was expected. So, I completed internship end of last month. And I have been a full doctor for 15 days now, also 15 days unemployed. Let’s just say I have been resting […]
15 lessons internship taught me.
One year can seem long or very short depending on what you’re doing, what you hope to achieve. The support system you have , finances, stressors, daily constants make it either bearable or not. Internship for me was a rollercoaster. A work rollercoaster, and emotional rollercoaster. There were beautiful days when patients put a smile […]