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Health / Re: Swelling At The Wrist by dexterousyemi(m): 7:17pm On Apr 29, 2018
that's a wrist cyst or a ganglion cyst. few people might recommend antibiotics for that but that's a waste of resources.it's going to leave itself or better still you can opt in for aspiration.but if you're not contempted with it's reccuring you might want to go for excision.
Health / Re: Update On The Girl That Was Spitting Out Blood. by dexterousyemi(m): 4:33pm On Dec 26, 2017
olowo gbogboro .i fear you ooo
Foreign Affairs / UN Votes 128-9 To Reject US Decision On Jerusalem by dexterousyemi(m): 7:35pm On Dec 21, 2017
UN General Assembly during the vote on Jerusalem, on December 21, 2017.
EVENINGNEWSLETTER
Published December 21, 2017
The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted by a decisive vote of 128 to nine, with 35 abstentions, a motion rejecting the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

President Donald Trump had warned ahead of the vote in the 193-nation assembly that “we’re watching” and threatened reprisals against countries backing the measure, which reaffirms that the status of Jerusalem must be resolved through negotiations.

Seven countries — Guatemala, Honduras, Togo, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and the Marshall Islands — joined Israel and the United States in opposing the measure.

Among the 35 countries that abstained were Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania and Rwanda.

Ukraine, which supported the draft resolution at the Security Council, was among 21 countries that did not turn up for the vote.

The measure was sent to the General Assembly after it was vetoed by the United States at the Security Council on Monday, although all other 14 council members voted in favor.

“The United States will remember this day,” US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the assembly.

“America will put our embassy in Jerusalem,” Haley said. “No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that.

“But this vote will make a difference on how Americans look at the UN and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the UN,” she said.

“When we make generous contributions to the UN we also have a legitimate expectation that our goodwill is recognized and respected.”

Israel seized the largely-Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it, claiming both sides of the city as its “eternal and undivided capital.”

But the Palestinians want the eastern sector as the capital of their future state and fiercely oppose any Israeli attempt to extend sovereignty there.

Several UN resolutions call on Israel to withdraw from territory seized in 1967 and the resolution contains the same language as past motions adopted by the assembly

SOURCE :PUNCH Nigeria

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Celebrities / Re: Oluwatobiloba, Boy Who Photobombed Wedding Photo Was Abandoned By His Mother by dexterousyemi(m): 1:47pm On Dec 21, 2017
the painful thing is the boy is super cute compared to the father.
Romance / Re: Pls Help, I'm Dating A Rich Philippines Woman by dexterousyemi(m): 4:26pm On Dec 19, 2017
chapp d name of the dating site asap
Politics / Re: Muslim Youths Kick Against Fayose's Christmas Clothes To Children by dexterousyemi(m): 5:10am On Dec 05, 2017
badoh:
I am a Christian from the southwest. I see this project as waste of state resources. Do you know the N200m can go a long way to offset pension and salaries arrears(if there's any). Do you know the number of boreholes that can be sunk with N200m in all the local govt in Ekiti state.

thank you very much.we dont have to be always sentimental in our speech.
Politics / Re: Muslim Youths Kick Against Fayose's Christmas Clothes To Children by dexterousyemi(m): 8:15pm On Dec 04, 2017
the NACOMYO or whatever and the people of ekiti all together are myopic. is this the time to start sowing clothes, when there are numerous project left unfinished,salaries unpaid etc.there are sensible things to be done with the money rather than this extravagant stuff he wants to embark on.
In my own view i will akin gov fayose to a mother who lavishes her earning on material things rather than securing her child's future.
common drilling boreholes for communities is a better project.

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Politics / Re: Aisha Buhari Prays At The Prophet Moh’d (PBUH) Mosque In Saudi Arabia (Photo) by dexterousyemi(m): 4:20pm On Dec 01, 2017
fxjunkie:
Instead of her to go to church and pray to God. There is only one way to God and it is through Jesus, any other way is false. Hate on the truth, it doesn't change the truth.

what a myopic way of thinking.such comment shouldn't be made here.
Health / Re: The Surgeons: Nigerian Father And Daughter Perform Surgery On Their Patient by dexterousyemi(m): 10:04am On Nov 24, 2017
Cessa0:


aww! All the best with that! (i mean, you marrying a Doctor)
and yeah, we can be friends!

and thats how you are gonna put the guy in a deep friend zone levels before getting to know eachother at all kiss.
Education / Re: UNN, UNILAG & OAU Are The Best In Law School Results by dexterousyemi(m): 9:27pm On Nov 23, 2017
I rep the university of first choice and the nation's pride.


greatest akokite

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Health / Re: 900 Doctors Resign From University College Hospital, Ibadan & Lagos Hospital by dexterousyemi(m): 4:31am On Nov 17, 2017
ElPhoche:

Hahaha, you no need to have family member here first. Once there is a will, there is a way. Na from one family member the thing deh take start.
Omo, some doctors go still deh Naija shaa. Make una just manage. Omo, of you see hospitals here eh, the Texas Medical centre is a village of hospitals. Just look it up on Google maps and view it. We never start for Naija. Everywhere you go, na hospital. Animal hospitals rival human hospitals,���
senior,you still saying that when the chances of a dog surviving cancer in u.s is greater than chances of human being surviving cancer in nigeria.they have about 10folds of LINACS for dogs than nigeria has for humans.even machines wey we get no dey work wella.
i sent you a mail. need to ask some questions. thanks in anticipation

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Health / Re: Your Vagina Should Smell And If Your Man Doesn't Like It DUMP Him, Gynecologist by dexterousyemi(m): 3:25am On Nov 15, 2017
QueenSekxy:

yeah..it has odour..
depends on which odour just like preek.

i preek chopper spotted..
anyways iz nor my bussiness

Education / Re: A Nairalander Convocating At University Of Ibadan Today (pics) by dexterousyemi(m): 9:55pm On Nov 13, 2017
ishowdotgmail:


My brain is my swag.. see ur head grin

bro don't mind them jare.happy convocation from your classmates bro. ADEPOJU ADEOLA.
Education / Re: Drey's Anatomy: An Insight Into My First Preclinical Year by dexterousyemi(m): 10:28pm On Oct 23, 2017
DR jargo i must really commend your hardwork. i bet people will keep on benefiting from this thread even when you're outta med sch.

o.k my people i have an article here pls read up , it correct our notion about the field of medicine and also prepare us for what is ahead

https://www.nairaland.com/4131651/secrete-horrors-sleep-deprived-medical

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Health / The Secrete Horrors Of Sleep Deprived Medical Doctors by dexterousyemi(m): 11:00am On Oct 22, 2017
I am a prospective medical doctor, this post is not meant to vindicate doctors of their wrongdoings, (NO SIREE i'll save that for my kid) but to rather make us appreciate them and to sensitize us to little things we overlook.
The first core principle of medical profession is to harm no one ,also THE PRINCIPLE OF INTERNAL MEDICINE BY HARRISON said and i quote "no greater responsibilities,no greater obligations can befall on lot of human than to be a physician"
sometimes i am pained when people accuse nigerian doctors of professional malpractise, when our counterparts abroad have a more convenient and conducive workplace. i read it somewhere ,when a lad said the chances of a dog surviving cancer in the U.S is greater than the chances of human being surviving cancer in Nigeria .I bet what has been running through your mind is how manage,truth be told the numbers of LINACS(linear accelerator is a radiotherapeutic machine for treatment of malignant cells) for dogs in U.S is about 25 folds the number of linacs in nigeria for treating human.
I came across a post and i am going to share it here.The post is centered around some u.s residents doctors whose dire hard work has landed them on the spotlight of depression,medical negligence,inability to carry out responsibilities properly,broken relationships with families and friends

“I did my internship in internal medicine and residency in neurology before laws existed to regulate resident hours. My first two years were extremely brutal, working 110 to 120 hours/week, and up to 40 hours straight. I got to witness colleagues collapse unconscious in the hallway during rounds, and I recall once falling asleep in the bed of an elderly comatose woman while trying to start an IV on her in the wee hours of the morning.”

“I have made numerous medication errors from being over tired. I also more recently misread an EKG because I was so tired I literally couldn’t see straight. She actually had a subarachnoid hemorrhage, and by misreading the EKG, I spent too much time on her heart and didn’t whisk her back to CT when she came in code blue. She died.”

“After a 36-hour shift, I fell asleep and began dreaming while walking home — repeatedly. It was a four-block walk.”
In general surgery residency, I had one week in which I worked 125 hours … I did a weekend of 72 hours in which I only got 4 hours of sleep. I would secretly hope to get in a car accident and maybe break a leg so that I would be forced to take off from work … just so I could get some rest.”


“During intern year at a program with a nominal 80-hour work week, I worked 100 hours per week for most of a month. I was interviewing a patient when I suddenly realized that I could not remember what I had just asked. I excused myself abruptly and rushed down the hall where I collapsed on the bathroom floor. I leaned against the wall and felt relaxed for the first time in weeks. My face was wet, and I realized I was sobbing. I was so unaware of how exhausted and impaired I had become. I cried because I was tired, and also because the patient I was seeing deserved better attention and care than I was capable of providing. I couldn’t remember any details of his chest pain or risk factors for heart attack. I couldn’t even remember his name or his face. Only that he was friendly and he trusted me. I felt intensely guilty for not being able to stay awake, let alone think like a doctor. I nodded off while crying, propped up against the wall. I woke up and forgave myself. I think I was away from him for less than 10 minutes. I walked back into his exam room and said, “Where were we? Let’s start at the beginning to make sure I get this right. Because what you are saying is really important.” That month during my evaluation, my program director told me that my total number of work hours was a sign of inefficiency. I later learned that others were also working 80 to 100 hours per week, but they falsified their hours to avoid criticism.”

“I was so sleep deprived that I’d fall asleep while writing patient notes and write my dreams into the notes. I’ve fallen asleep on a pile of charts only to have the nurses cover me with blankets. I woke panicked because I was hours behind in my work. I’ve fallen asleep standing up in surgery and witnessed my attending doctors fall asleep while doing surgery. I actually passed out at the end of a 36-hour shift and woke up on a stretcher in the recovery room.”

“A dear friend from med school died during her neurosurgery residency. Drove over a median into a tractor-trailer after a 30+ hour shift. She left behind her family, including a twin sister and her fiance. She was 30.”

“I had married the year before residency, and for that first two years, I was either at work or asleep, so didn’t see my wife, and it was the start of the erosion of the relationship that led years later to divorce. I also suffered permanent health problems from extreme sleep deprivation. Prior to residency, I slept fine (8 hours per night) and had regular bowel habits. Since my internship, I developed lifelong severe insomnia, and went for decades on 4 to 5 hours of sleep/night, as well as severe constipation, using the toilet about every five days

“I was struck down with a very severe depression in the context of emotional conflicts and severe sleep deprivation, after doing a surgical rotation with every other night call and lots of degrading comments from the surgeons recommending that I go into nursing or teaching instead since those were “good professions for women.” This was 1983. I was supported in the sense that I missed six weeks of medical school without censure while I was too debilitated to move physically. I spent those weeks mainly sitting in a corner of my apartment, crying, and seeing my psychiatrist once/week for therapy and meds.”


Are these the doctors you want to see in the hospital? Protect yourself and your loved ones. Always ask, “How long have you been on your shift, Doc?”
I will also like to share the story of one particular dr dana corriel who is a victim of malpractise herself
Here's the short of the long
My obstetrician messed up. She took care of my pregnancy during one of the most difficult periods of my life, medical residency. She missed a shot that should have been given. RhoGam, to be exact. (rhogam is an injection given to a pregnant person whose rhesus factor is different from that of the child so that the mother doesn't develop antibodies that kill the fetus.)
“Aren’t you a doctor?”


How did I not know I needed to get the shot? How did being a doctor myself not prevent me from this terribly unnecessary mistake?

I can’t clearly answer this question, because the guilt of it all still weighs heavily on my shoulders. What I can say is that I put 100 percent of my faith into her hands. After all, I had been a completely healthy woman up until then, with no medical issues whatsoever. I never had to double check anything until then because it just wasn’t ever necessary.

I didn’t even know my blood type. Do you?

Plus, I was in residency, back at the time when resident hours were not limited by laws in place today. I easily put in 80 hours — often more — of work in the hospital, with many sleepless nights. I’m not sure how I did it, and pregnant, no less, but I did. The bottom line was that I was doctoring others, and that in itself, was more than enough.

Something else may have contributed to this, and it’s more of a confession: the fact that I wasn’t ready to be a mom. I didn’t keep a week-by-week tracker of my baby’s progress- as other expectant moms-to-be often do- didn’t caress my belly, or even sing the baby lullabies. I was working 36-hour shifts- treating HIV, alleviating sickle crisis pain, even administering CPR.

Finding out

In my third trimester, hospitalized with fever, a resident barged into my room and, no less than three times, asked — or rather accused, in disbelief — if I had been pregnant before, and specifically if I had had an abortion.

“Are you sure?”

“Never?”

“Not even one?”

I get the confusion, in hindsight, of course. Back then, though, it was nothing short a painful interrogation. To not only discover my body had reacted in a rare way and that this could have been prevented, but to also have my honesty questioned.

They were hoping it was a mistake, that I was an anomaly, and scampering to find an alternate cause, other than physician negligence.

In hindsight — which, in medicine, is always 20-20 — and in speaking with many obstetricians since, it turns out RhoGam is considered an automatic knee-jerk injection to those in the field. It rarely gets missed in this day and age.

But it was! I was missed!

Please excuse the exclamation marks, but my urge to scream out these words fails to be subdued by my need to maintain medical professionalism. It’s an adult-style tantrum. We all need these sometimes because they serve as alternatives to lawsuits and therapy.

The after

After it happened, my pregnancies became high risk. The antibodies my body made were stored forever, consequently multiplying with each one. They waited like weapons, ready for attack. For me, high-risk translated into frequent doctor’s appointments at the high-risk clinic, close monitoring and weekly ultrasounds. There were now the risks of fetal hemolytic anemia, jaundice — as the baby’s blood cells popped-fetal heart failure and death.

This was the future I faced..
I know the last story will be shocking that a medical doctor can also be a victim of negligence



lala ,seun mynd 44 pls help move this to the front page

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Education / Re: Afe Babalola University Completes 400 Bed Teaching Hospital(photo) by dexterousyemi(m): 5:31am On Oct 08, 2017
this is superb!!! no public teaching hospital has positron electron transmission(PET)scan in nigeria yet. this is really an improvement although new radiological imaging are being used in u.s ,like PET-CT scanetc
Education / Re: Here Are The Pictures Winsomelady Took During Her Graduation by dexterousyemi(m): 10:35am On Sep 02, 2017
winsomelady:


Thanks. You rock! I am happy you've gone through some of my posts. By their words, we shall know them (the idiotic cyber bullies). During my graduation, I won many prizes. I represented my school in many competitions. When I was in JSS3, I competed in Cowbell Maths, competed in MAN (Mathematics Association of Nigeria) competition. I sat for and passed NECO and JAMB in SS2. I decided not to try the admission then because I wanted to study Medicine and be a Neuro-Surgeon, though I had over 200, but I knew I had no chance then when there were many with 280s and above.

I am not here to blow my trumpets, but once in a while you need to put irresponsible kids (sorry if I sound disrespectful, It is not in my character to do so.) where they really belong. You decide whether someone is an adult or kid not really by the age but their IQ and conduct

Cheers. I love you all. Peace

you shouldn't think that way,i know someone that scored 306 for medicine and failed unilag postume .it doesn't matter,i score less than 240 in jamb but got 80% in post ume. you can message me if you wish i could actually put you through.in medicine mentorship is important even if your mentor is not a doctor but atleast to encourage you and motivate you when you're down
Education / Re: Whats The Lowest Amount You Can Live On In School? by dexterousyemi(m): 12:03pm On Aug 25, 2017
I think your allownce also depends on the location of your school, 20,000 naira allowance in some schools should be enought to live chilling life ,while 20,000 in schools like unilag still lands you at the below average spotlight angry
Health / Re: Baby Born With Intestines Outside The Body In Niger State (Graphic Photos) by dexterousyemi(m): 2:34pm On Aug 12, 2017
sgtponzihater1:


Good that they do such surgeries here. My point however is as clear as day, it's either you accept or remain in the medieval age that most Nigerian doctor have remained. A Naija doctor went to the US and confessed that he had been practising below par and outdated, his only saviour was writing the USMLE and realizing that most of our protocols were either obselete or outdated. E.g, a newly diagnosed Diabetic walks into ur clinic and you immediately place him on glucophage and daonil, give him a 2 weeks follow-up and expect him to honour it. Issue is even a naïve lab attendant can place someone on glucophage and daonil. These stuffs are a hard nut to crack for Naija docs, but will make a post for those willign to learn.

I understand your point,but i think you should blame the failed system in Nigeria more.IF I would say medicine is actually one of the many professions in Nigeria that is till offering a lot despite the little given.

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