Empress👑🌹

Med student running on vibes😜😌...

[Empress👑🌹 @_Porscheempress]

I assisted my Chief @drhephzibah1 with an inguinal herniotomy today, yayyy💃🏻.
I actually love the two moods of surgery: absolute focus ➡️ post-op joy! 🩺✨🤭
More to come by God's grace😌
#MedTwitter #Surgery

[They call me Afo @Dr_Afo]

600l medical students on the hallway dissing internal physicians and talking about how surgery is so much cooler.

75 year old external examiner from UI who is a nephrologist passing by:

[co-creator with God. 🥼🩺 @MaryRoseMalomo]

I can't believe I used to pray for big boobs as a child.
Thank God He didn't answer that foolish prayer.😭

[Diary of a Female Surgery Resident @drhephzibah1]

One of the saddest breast cancer cases I've ever encountered was a 29-year-old woman.

She found a lump in her breast and went to a teaching hospital.

Diagnosis: Advanced breast cancer. At least Stage IIIA.

She was advised to start chemotherapy immediately to shrink the tumour before surgery.

She was told time was of the essence.

She went home to tell her family dur to fear and a need for financial support.

Her mother suddenly remembered another young woman, about the same age, who had "a lump" removed at a private hospital.

No mastectomy.

No chemotherapy.

She was fine.

What her mother didn't realise was that not every breast lump is the same.

Her friend's lump was benign.

Her daughter's own was cancer.

So they sought another option.

The lump was removed, but the wound never healed and unfortunately, no histology was done and no further treatment guven

Then someone suggested a traditional healer in a nearby settlement.

They went.

Eight months passed.

By the time she returned to the hospital, she was septic, anaemic, severely malnourished, and the cancer had progressed beyond what it was before.

She died within a week.

The heartbreaking part?

In that same year, she could have completed her treatment.

Fear is powerful, and when you're desperate, the promise of an easier path can be incredibly tempting.

But delayed or inappropriate treatment steals something medicine can never give back.

Time.

If you're ever diagnosed with anything and you're unsure about the recommended treatment, please seek a second opinion from another qualified specialist.

Ask questions.

Understand your options.

But don't disappear.

Don't lose months chasing an easier answer.

Sometimes, time is the treatment.

💔 😢 😪

[Dr. Naseem Suhail @DrNaseemSuhail]

A young man spent over 30 minutes sitting on the toilet while scrolling through his phone. He ended up in the emergency room.

Look closely at the highlighted red circle on the pelvic CT scan.😳
What's the diagnosis?

[☠︎︎ @bizzleecos]

Prime example of Black don’t crack unless you on it

[KAT @reallKAT]

I fell in love with this scripture:

“There will come a time when your tears will fall, not because of your troubles, but because God has answered your prayers.”

— 𝖧𝖠𝖡𝖠𝖪𝖪𝖴𝖪 𝟤:𝟥

[Dimaro🩺 @dimarokoji_]

Lecturers told me medicine was not for someone like me – Dr Hanny, disabled consultant histopathologist

Dr. Joshua Hanny is a Consultant Histopathologist at University of Uyo Teaching Hospital. Born with polio that left him unable to walk, he crawled to school as a child and...

[Diary of a Female Surgery Resident @drhephzibah1]

I operate on babies fresh out of their mum's body 😍 😩 😌

[Diary of a Female Surgery Resident @drhephzibah1]

I sat with a mother recently, and I almost wept.

Her 6 year old child started complaining of abdominal pain 3 years ago.

She noticed a mass 2 years ago.

Gradually increasing in size.

She went to a hospital.

The doctors said they needed to operate.

She ran.

"My baby is too small," she said.

A year ago, the tummy started getting bigger.

The child started losing weight.

Complications began to stack.

She went back.

The mass had grown significantly.

The chest had cannonball lesions.

Advanced disease.

Wilms tumour is one of the most treatable cancers in children.

If caught early, survival rates are excellent.

This child had a chance 3 years ago.

Abdominal swelling or pain in a child is a red flag.

It's not something to watch.

It's not something to manage at home.

It's not something to take to the "chemist."

Please come early.

Please come to the hospital and follow through with the treatment.

No child should die from Wilms tumour.

[Diary of a Female Surgery Resident @drhephzibah1]

This actually happened a few weeks ago.

Doctor: Don't feed your kids before coning for surgery.

Mother: Sure, Doctor, am I a fool?

Doctor: Of course you're not.

9am on day of Surgery

Doctor: (Knowing the mother would lie, faces the 12 year old) Hello, What did you eat?

Boy: *Excitedly* Bread and coke.

Doctor: *faces mother* Surgery has been cancelled.

Mother: *Starts crying* 😢 😭 😢

Doctor: 👇

[Dr Scarface📍🩺 @king_pearxe]

Dr Madam, your son has been having a series of vomiting, please don't feed him anything for now until we ask you to

Madam, Dr., what if he gets hungry

Dr; he will be on infusions for now, let's control the situation

After 2 hours

Madam ; Dr I gave my son food to eat after you told me not to give him food, he said he's hungry, but Dr he vomited the food again, what should we do now?

Me ;

[Empress👑🌹 @_Porscheempress]

@Zeeshan_Ghani24 Step 1

[Empress👑🌹 @_Porscheempress]

@drhephzibah1 @VictorMalomo You're welcome ma🫶🏻✨️

[Diary of a Female Surgery Resident @drhephzibah1]

The bond of motherhood is a timeless legacy. ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗

[They call me Afo @Dr_Afo]

Go and learn a skill.
My surgical skills is a joke right.
Do you think it's easy to repair an hernia, bring out an inflamed appendix and bring out an obstructed baby live?
Go and learn a skill.
Nigeria will try your patience.

[Bels❤ @drBels23]

One beauty about this theatre suite is it is paediatrics friendly, you can tell this is a paediatric theatre suite.
A distraction technique for separation anxiety in children.

[Diary of a Female Surgery Resident @drhephzibah1]

Well done, my able assistant.
It was such a pleasure.

[DMiraculousDoc @A_Writer_Right]

Women performing surgery
A beautiful site to behold

[Empress👑🌹 @_Porscheempress]

@A_Writer_Right Thank you🥹❤️