The Boy who found the moon

Carter Efe has gone for a medical check-up to examine his whole body ahead of his fight against Portable tomorrow.

Back during my House Job days, we became so proficient at diagnosing Typhoid perforation that we didn't need an ultrasound scan (USS) to assess a bowel perforation. In the rare cases where diagnosis becomes dicey, we usually employ plain abdominal x-ray. Whenever the surgical team was called to the A&E to review a patient, we knew how to diagnose it, prescribe medications, and list the surgical items to procure, so the patient could undergo an emergency exploratory laparotomy (Exlap) without wasting much time. This approach helped the patients, as early surgery has been shown to improve overall survival rates from perforation. Throughout the months I spent in that department, not a single case of wrongful diagnosis was recorded. Typhoid perforation was like bread and butter to us—we saw at least one patient every day, and sometimes up to five in a single day. Now, someone is claiming that we should have delayed each of those Exlaps until we could get abdominal CT scans to confirm the diagnosis—which, by the way, is the standard. But what about patient survival? How much does an abdominal CT cost? In this part of the country, one could spend a whole week trying to get a CT done, even if they have the money. Evidently, some people only hear about resource-poor settings in PowerPoint presentations. They don't know what's actually obtainable in those environments. Worse still, they're not willing to listen and learn from those on the front lines of service delivery in resource-constrained settings.

Anatomy Check: Name a muscle that starts with the first letter of your name, this should be fun🤭 I'll go first: Psoas major.

Day 22: Snake bite? When someone is bitten by a snake, there is only one thing that you MUST do. RUSH the person to a nearby hospital 🏥. Don't suck, rub sand, tie it, lick, rub oil, rub herbs or cut the wound. Also eating onions does nothing.

I will 100% believe traditional medicine for snake and scorpion bites/sting. Our forefathers lived in bushy terrain and had far more snakes and scorpions than we will ever experience in today’s world and they had traditional healers handle such cases. Yes modern medicine are more specific and straight to the point but people in the olden era dealt with such cases with varying success.

You see that’s short period they give you to go and deliver consult, better use am chop before you come back.

As a Medical Doctor, never make the mistake of trying to diagnose yourself when you fall ill. I swear on Hippocrates you’d regret it.

BismiLlah, So in Sha Allah I want to start writing about my experience as a houseofficer -The good, the ugly and the overall experience. I hope to complete 100 days writing streak. Kindly retweet so that others can join the ride.

I do hope Nigerians are gearing up for the Biggest shutdown of the Healthcare sector this week. Resident Doctors are going on strike. The Pillars of the Healthcare system of the country are about to shut it down. A ricochet effect of the failure of the Government.