INTERNSHIP IN UGANDA
Memoir of an intern Doctor… Day 94
Happy new year my beautiful people, and a happy new decade to you all. I wish you all your heart’s desires in this year. Also, I’m done with my 1 month Surgery rotation. Its been a rollacoaster…..a fun one. I don’t even know where all my previous fear disappeared to, all I know is that […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…day 82
Its sad how I have taken 5 days before posting anything on this blog. I have gone to bed after 1am on most nights this week, and even when I have slept earlier, I was too tired to even return my Mom’s calls. So most times I black out the second I get to my […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 70
I had another bad migraine today. I overdosed on Sumatriptan. I needed quick relief. Because I had to work.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Memoir of an intern Doctor… Day 59
I had a hard laugh with a patient today. I have never laughed at a reason for why someone decided to seek health care, but this one killed me. Mother , 6 days in puerperium following cesarean section traveled 3 districts to reach here. Her concern was that her pain that disappeared completely and suddenly […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…..day 58
Medical legal issues are becoming a thing in this country. I don’t know whether to attribute it to patients getting to know their rights or to the increasing rates of unemployment among lawyers….no offense lawyers, Doctors are unemployed too. So today, I witnessed an interesting senario. Lawyer X heard of a story about a certain […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…..Day 53
In 8 days time, I’ll be moving over to Surgery for my 1 month rotation. But can I say I’m already worried. First of all, mass casualties freak me out. Then also people bleeding from any part of their body other than their vagina disturbs my brain( its the only bleeding I’m used to that’s […]