It’s been a while since I ranted. Maybe I was too busy or there was nothing to rant about. However, the other day I saw my friend and former school mate nurse Loise; shaking hands with, the very much qualified CS for...
The cancer corner
Prostate Cancer
When I was in primary school, learning how to wipe my nose, taking a bath only on Sundays and competing over who could urinate the furthest, my friends and I used to make fun of our head teacher because he couldn’t hold...
KMPDU, Making Doctors Great Again
Dr. Ouma Oluga. The activities of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) from December 2016 through to March 2017 will live long in the memories of Kenyan doctors. The names of a number...
Relax Jackie, it’s Just A Lump; Breast cancer
My name is Jackie. I am a 52 year old mother of three wonderful boys; the eldest, our family chef, is 21 and he is in his 3rd year of collage studying catering. The second born who in a way is taller than his elder...
Leukemia
What is leukemia? I still remember the first time I heard about Leukemia. I had probably heard it before, but the first time I heard the word and took a moment to internalize it was in my 2nd year of high school. I was...
The Cancer Corner
The big C. World over, for such a long time, cancer has been and still is one of the scariest if not the scariest diagnoses anyone can get. This is mainly because cancer, whatever the type it is deadly and potentially...
It’s not your call
Do not be quick to to write anyone off. A lesson I learnt from an experience with a patient. An experience that I have hardly forgotten. While at ward 7 at JOOTRH ( ward 7 is a male medical ward), a male patient, in his...
Friday evening, the making of a Doctor.
I have been planning to write on the plight of medical students for a long time but I never had the right words, I still don’t but I will try and paint the picture. I’m not sure how it happens in other universities but...
Too posh to push
Too posh to push Bringing forth new life is meant to be one of the happiest experiences a mother can ever have, but labor ward is, for lack of a better word, agonizing. Images of women screaming and writhing in pain are...
LET ME DIE
Let Me Die!! Have you ever thought about when you would die? In what circumstances? When you hit 40 years, would your body be paying for the things you did earlier in life? All the tobacco, the alcohol, promiscuity...
