On one Monday morning last month, I was doing my usual hospital rounds. I noticed a young man who had just arrived, he was writhing in abdominal pain, breathing so fast and aggressively, he was semi-conscious and his extremities were cold. He also looked severely dehydrated , had a low blood pressure with a rapid […]
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A few months back a patient walked into my office frail and weak. He had come to pick his biopsy results for a suspicious growth. He had come in with his relatives; son, daughter and handsome grandson. I don’t know why I took a liking to these strangers. Either it was the charisma and high
This past month I literally got a chance to be on the other side of the table. My cousin had chosen me to be her birth companion( if you are pregnant and you haven’t decided on who will be your birth companion then you are not serious with your birth plan). I know that in
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I’m currently on holiday in Nairobi so I have not been attending to patients, however I have been available for consultation and help whenever my colleagues here need me. Last evening I was in the kitchen making dinner with mum (a rare occurrence in our house, my mum hardly ever gets time to cook due
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BLIGHTED OVUMI have been spending so much time with pregnant women of late such that my body, soul and spirit is in pregnancy-mode, I’m actually awaiting my ‘first delivery’ 3 days from today. 2 close relatives and a best friend are pregnant so I have been bombarded with lots of pregnancy questions. One of
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS I had written this post back in July but I was discouraged from posting it. People felt that the post would provoke unnecessary pity. I decided to wait till I had surpassed the window period of the disease I will be talking about so as not to attract too much attention. That way,
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A day in court I did get a court bond to appear as a witness in a case. Working in a private mission hospital, I thought all along that the job of appearing in court only applied to doctors working in government hospitals. I had to go, skipping a bond can call for a warrant
LESSONS LEARNED FROM RAMADHAN 1). TO BE A GOOD TIME MANAGER…. Ramadhan has taught me to be an excellent time manager. The 5 obligatory prayers plus many more prayers have to be prayed in this holy month, some in the middle of the night or very early before 4a.m yet we are still expected to
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My experience in Cottolengo Mission Hospital Chaaria I remember one evening when I was having dinner with younger colleagues in Meru during a KMA meeting, one of the colleagues causally said ‘The doctors in Chaaria are quacks.’ I was so hurt and shaking from head to toe in anger . I took it so personally
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Alcoholism among post-menopausal women It would surprise you to note that many of my ‘above-50’ female patients are chronic alcoholics. I’m following quite a number for Liver Cirrhosis secondary to alcoholism. I see their daughters cry when they open up to me about their mothers drinking behaviour and how they had tried to no avail
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