OF MIRACLES IN MY PRACTICE IN 2024 Early December 2024, a patient walks to my clinic as a referral from a former colleague . Let’s call her Juliet . She is light skinned but I quickly I notice that she is quite pale and has a belly bump. I kick off my essential history taking […]
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FINANCIAL INEQUALITIES AND FRUSTRATIONS IN KENYA HEALTH SECTOR I have worked mostly in the public health systems and financial woes amongst clients are real. A little bit of exposure in the private has magnified this gap for me and breaks my heart a lot . When I was an intern , one of my seniors
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STEREOTYPES AND SOCIAL PREJUDICES IN MY LIFE I enrolled for a competitive Accounting Course at Strathmore University immediately after my KCSE before the results . I used my mock-exam results to get admission and it was a very good exposure for me. I lived alone in a hostel at Nairobi-West , got a different experience
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LIFE-FAMILY-CAREER BALANCE OF AN OBSGYN WIFE-MUM It’s been years and my trend of blogging and vlogging has changed significantly. If you ask me , a girl grew up and got more responsibilities. Those years of daily blogging right after work are long gone ; I was probably doing it to kill boredom or push the
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MY TORONTO EXPERIENCE 2019 DR. KHADIJA MBENEKA ALIThe preparation for electives started way back in January 2019 when we applied; I’m grateful to my referees Dr. Odongo and Dr.
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It was a tuesday morning and I was dropping my mother to the office. A local Kamba station was playing on the car radio;I guess her driver or car-wash guys had set it to the station the previous day . A morning show was airing and the presenter was discussing about a medical condition; endometriosis .He gave
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Disclaimer: This post is in no way meant to stigmatize. HIV is manageable with proper medication and lifestyle changes. Prevention of HIV acquisition is important. Discordant couples are encouraged on early testing and proper precautions such as PreP to protect one another. Do not stigmatize!This post is also not targeting my Muslim community. This applies
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It’s been exactly 30 months since I last blogged. I joined school for my specialization and this being my first time in a public Kenyan university, I wasn’t certain how the idea of blogging would be perceived; my original plan was to remain unnoticed and to keep a low-profile as much as possible. I guess
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I remember attending a APOC (Adolescent Package of Care) training last year and was surprised to learn that the law allows for teenagers to use contraception no matter the method requested (as long as it’s reversible). There seems to be a very thin line between morality and legality. The over-18 limit no longer applies in
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MALE INFERTILITY About 2 weekends ago , I was ‘thoroughly’ bored in Chaaria on a Saturday evening . I decided to go to Meru Town for company and joined some friends watching football( I know nothing about the game). As they sipped their beer and I continued with my delmonte, they kept making fun of
