MEDICAL INTERNSHIP IN UGANDA
Memoir of a medical doctor….day 37
Never ever take a walk through causality department if you’re not on call/duty. You will either end up being on abrupt call there or you will be the causality. A few nights back, a colleague called me to go perform a cesarean section with him at around 9pm. It was his night duty on obstetrics […]
Memoir of a doctor intern ….day 36
I have suffered from Migraines for the past 9 years. And my worst memories of medical school point back to those nights when I had migraines and couldn’t study, and times when my parents had to pick me from hostel at night to take me to the hospital. Those have been my worst moments as […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…day 34
Sundays are meant to be sunny days, and church days for Christians. But I haven’t been to church in months. This whole past week, I’ve been thinking about how Sunday service will be like at Watoto church Gulu. I literally spoke about it daily. But this morning served me with a different kind of sauce. […]
Memoir of an intern doctor …day 33
Weeekends. What are weekends? Is it a person? Is it food? Is it the president of Uganda? Is they we? Are we they? We don’t know such things as weekends here in internship. Its 6pm, I’m not even on night duty, and I’m still on ward working my ass off as I should be doing. […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 32
While on night shift, i rushed through the theatre changing room to get this patient on table as soon as possible because her unborn baby was already compromised despite resuscitation. Guys, in the whole struggle and rush , i forgot to tie the strings of my theatre pants. And you can guess what happened. They […]
Memoir of an intern doctor……..day 23
Wednesday has always been my happy day of the week. And today it came with great blessings. I’m taking off my first leave as an intern. Call it Compassionate leave. You must be wondering….but how? Its just 23 days. Well guys, my graduation is in 3 days. Saturday 26th October, its going down in mbarara, […]
Memoir of a medical intern…day 22
Today I met a colleague returning to his room to rest. He stopped me and he had one sincere and polite request….. He wanted a therapeutic hug. Last week , I was called to ICU to confirm death. Monitor read that the patient had died about 20 minutes ago. There was no need for me […]
Memoir of a medical intern…… Day 19
Been in Gulu for 3 weekends now, and this is the first time we decided to go out. First of all, there’s a swimming pool around the hospital premises. Its free for staff. My evening kinda started there. I didn’t swim though. Just watched my crazy friends show each other into the water. I survived […]
Memoir of a medical intern…Day 20
Internship has taught me lots of things sofar. Resilience, patience but most importantly, decision making . Growing up, I have made very few major life decisions on my own. My parents have done most of it for me. What course to study, how to study, how to read, what to wear, what is important, what […]
Memoir of a medical intern….day 17
Handling medical knowledge conflicts the polite way can be challenging sometimes. Especially in times when an immediate life saving decision has to be made There is always that midwife who has practiced for the past 15 years, a nurse who has practised for 7 years, a medical officer who has practised for maybe 6 years, […]