I’ve done all this in Nigeria.
Donated Blood sometimes because my patient couldn’t afford it.
Stuck my neck out for an OSUSTECH student attacked by cultists, suturing him in complete darkness because they could come back if they knew we were saving him.
Sprinting across the hospital to borrow an oxygen cylinder from another ward.
All while our salaries were being owed.
Non-functioning incubator? We built one with a paper box.
Infectious ward? We bought our own PPE.
Faulty Generator on Night shifts ? Serviced it and continue working.
WE got shit done.
And their defense will be, you did not mention it. A job that you have being doing for years, I have to tell you.
It is just like giving work to a child and spelling out the whole detail.
One lesson I’ve learnt from working with artisans is you have to be specific about every detail
You can’t even leave room for them to use their initiative because you will be shocked to get a totally different outcome.
One lesson I’ve learnt from working with artisans is you have to be specific about every detail
You can’t even leave room for them to use their initiative because you will be shocked to get a totally different outcome.
A woman has just given birth.
Everybody is happy. Then suddenly, she starts bleeding.
This is postpartum haemorrhage, and when it happens, no one has time to ask where the drug, tranexamic acid or TXA is.
That drug, Tranexamic acid can help reduce deaths from bleeding when it is given early after PPH starts.
So if a facility is providing emergency obstetric care, TXA should not be something they start looking for when the emergency has started.
It should be there.
As a man, if your wife is preparing to give birth, ask if the facility has TXA available. Same thing if you’re pregnant and preparing for delivery.
Ask questions. Know what is available.
Prepare before the emergency comes.
RT so that expectant mothers and fathers can see this very important message.
Source: Data, provided by @womenadvocate and @LSHTM.
Patient with previous heart surgery but not indicated, Now I have to be asking an 88yr old woman with sternotomy scar the surgery she did 9yrs ago if she can still remember or figure it out myself in the scan.
Patient with previous heart surgery but not indicated, Now I have to be asking an 88yr old woman with sternotomy scar the surgery she did 9yrs ago if she can still remember or figure it out myself in the scan.
A lot of people don't realize how much of their worldview was simply inherited from whatever they consumed growing up.
Movies, books, influencers, news outlets, algorithms.
Sometimes what feels like an independent opinion is just something you've heard 500 times.