DR VIOLAH NAHURIRA
Memoir of an intern Doctor….day 258…..Quarantine day 2
Following my contact with the covid case, the hospital administration decided to quarantine me and other 5 nurses who got into contact with this patient at the hospital institutional quarantine. There was a pre-quarantine session with the hospital administration, and members from WHO who talked us through this, counselled us, gave us tips about handling […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 253
Have you done a long ward round with a serious running nose before? Forget Usain Bolt’s Kinda speed….I mean this nose teased me today. I went through this today. The meds didn’t help. I excused myself about 4 times on each patient and in between writing my patient’s notes on the their chat. I have […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 245
Today, my colleague told me I could become an absent wife and absent mother to my future family if I kept up with my workaholic nature. I ouched and Ooouched but guess what, he was right😫😫😫. And I’m very scared at the rate at which it’s moving…..way too fast. My life is around patients and […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…..day 221. Acholi language not Acholi yet
My Acholi language is not close to even 15%, but I’ve tried to learn some “Medical Acholi” for my clerkships. But, I sometimes ask closed ended questions when I have no immediate interpreter but it still doesn’t seem to help😖. Here is how it goes. Me; Ngok tye? ( are you still vomiting?) Patient; hdndvsusj […]
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 […]