Catherine💘

🎀|Skincare🌸|Learning to save lives⚕️

[Catherine💘 @_casty__]

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[TVP @Theveripost]

Maternal deaths in Afghanistan could rise by 50% this year.
After the Taliban's ban on contraception, women are being forced to give birth without doctors, miscarrying without treatment, and losing access to even basic medicine.

[Dr PARVEEN YOGRAJ @dr_yograj]

Two A+ Parents, One O- Baby? The Blood Type “Scandal” That’s Actually Just Science
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It’s a panic that lands in clinics and WhatsApp groups far too often: “Both of us are A positive… how is our child O negative? Did the lab mess up? Or is something else going on?”
The short, reassuring answer is no lab error, no mystery, and no betrayal. This outcome is completely possible under normal genetics. Here’s why the “math” actually maths perfectly once we look at what blood-type tests really reveal.
Your blood type is decided by two separate systems that most people only see the final phenotype of, not the hidden genes.
ABO system 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
Type A means you carry at least one A allele. You could be AA or AO. The O allele is recessive and invisible in your test result. If both you and your partner are AO (very common), each of you has a 50 % chance of passing the O allele. When both pass O, the child is blood group O. Roughly 45–50 % of people with type A are actually AO carriers, so this pairing happens every day.
Rh (positive/negative) system 🩸🩸🩸
“Positive” means you have the dominant D antigen. You can still be heterozygous Dd and carry the recessive d allele. If both parents are Dd, there is a 25 % chance the child inherits d from both and is Rh negative. About 15 % of people are Rh negative, which means a large portion of “positive” people quietly carry the d gene.
When both parents are A positive but heterozygous for both traits (AO and Dd), an O-negative child is not only possible — it is mathematically expected in a predictable percentage of pregnancies. The child simply received the two recessive alleles that were hiding in plain sight in both parents.
Blood-group reports show only what antigens are expressed on red cells. They do not sequence your DNA or tell you whether you are homozygous or heterozygous. That hidden information is what allows “impossible” combinations to appear regularly in perfectly ordinary families.
This is basic Mendelian inheritance, not infidelity or laboratory failure. The same recessive-gene logic explains blue-eyed children born to brown-eyed parents or curly-haired kids from straight-haired couples. It is science doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
If the result still feels unsettling, a simple conversation with your doctor or a genetics counsellor can walk you through your specific probabilities. In the overwhelming majority of cases, however, the only thing that needs updating is the outdated assumption that blood types behave like simple labels instead of the elegant, recessive-carrying system they actually are.
Your O-negative child is not evidence of a mistake. They are proof that genetics loves surprises — and that love (and science) are doing just fine.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
#MedTwitter #MedEd #MedX #Myth
@IhabFathiSulima @ajaykraina @sowmiyasid @ShiningScience @AstroCounselKK @sanjoychakra

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Here is the science that saves marriages:
What you see on a lab report (Phenotype) hides your actual genetics (Genotype).

​1️⃣ The ABO System:
You have two genes. Type A can be genetically 'AA' or 'AO'. If both parents are 'AO', the 'O' is hidden. There is a 25% chance the baby inherits the hidden 'O' from both. Boom: Type O baby

2️⃣ The Rh Factor (+/-):
Positive (+) is dominant, Negative (-) is recessive. If both parents carry a hidden negative gene, there's a 25% chance they both pass it down.

Combined? A perfectly normal 1-in-16 chance of an O-Negative baby! It all comes down to basic Mendelian genetics!

FOLLOW ME for having more such clarity!

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

"Doc, please tell me the lab messed up. My blood group is A positive. My wife is also A positive. But our child is O negative. I just don't understand... the maths is not mathing. How is this even possible?"

I get this panic question more often than you'd think

[AYO💡💡 @sepril23NG]

Truecaller (premium) is one of the most underrated apps ever

[Dan @DanOnaolapo]

@cazeemtunde Instead of you to obtain your fellowship here and have regular updates on X.
Anyways, FWAC-X in the bag

[only 1 uzama @KaiUzama]

A lot of you never held any leadership role prior to marriage. Not your offices, not in associations you belong to, not even headboy of your primary school, so marriage is the one place you finally get to be the local champion leader you’ve been having wet dreams about.

Pathetic

[Catherine💘 @_casty__]

Long time

[Catherine💘 @_casty__]

Long time

[Mr. El-Bonga @el_bonga]

This reminds me of a man who had spent years in Abuja struggling to make it everyday. He is well connected though. He said, if,by the age of 50, he didn’t make it, he’d build a house in his village and be telling stories about Maitama, Asokoro etc. under a mango tree to people 😂

[baddestjojo🍒 @jojosszn]

Nigeria is so dystopian. Hours away people are running for their lives, in the sw we’re throwing raves every weekend.

[Catherine💘 @_casty__]

@ChukwukaNnorom @Oghenerukevwe_N @officialunth Well done Dr!

[REDCAPDOC🩺 @ChukwukaNnorom]

🍃Proof of life🍃

Today i finished my surgery rotation as a house officer(junior doctor) in @officialunth . Ended the department with cardiothoracic surgery which I did for 1 month.

In the last 1 month I had no social life, no time for self or any other person, almost always in the hospital, almost always on call, almost always working and with all these I was still owed🤧 by @MDCNOfficial . But as the saying goes "whatever has a beginning has an end“, glad to say I’m done, it was a roller coaster.

Some of the procedural skills i acquired in cardiothoracic surgery:

- Closed tube thoracotomy drainage (CTTD)
- Pleurodesis
- Peripherally inserted central catheterization (PICC)
- Thoracentesis

Some surgeries I observed:

- Lobectomy
- thymectomy
- rigid oesophagoscopy + oesophageal dilation
- sternotomy

#medicaltraining #doctor

[Kelvin O johnson @_OKJ__]

My friend Victor Daniel on his Facebook dropped some very very insightful comments responding to this very tweet I’m quoting on seyi tinubu and most Nigerian rich elites that I just have to share.

Bottom line is, this people see but literally do not understand in any way,the plights of the average Nigerian…

[Mighty Mohammed @The__Vyrus]

Doctors in Nigeria 🥺

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Repetitive negative thinking is associated with the accumulation of Alzheimer's dementia protein in the brain.

Stay positive.

[O.R.A @sweetrose_agwu]

My contribution to medicine in Nigeria?

I don't overwork my houseofficers. I even do more work.
I teach medical students gently and sign their papers.

Plus I spent IWD using my skills keeping human beings alive.

Praise God.

[Ocean @GreenKingZ1]

Patient came to the Antenatal Clinic, saw a house office eating gala and jokingly asked to share with him. The HO obliged and gave her .
That evening she was admitted through the ER for Preterm contractions. During the rounds the next day, she kept asking the SR and Consultant if what happy to her had anything to do with eating gala.
These patients are not your friends or family members, let your kindness be very limited when you see them.
They won't mind if the license that took you years of tears and blood is burnt in a minute.
They will turn to the next Doctor with a valid.
Be Reasonable and wise!

[Olori🍒 @OloriOfOloris]

Justin has never lied though 🌚

[Dr Mohammad Usman Suleiman @mohagirei]

_*WHEN IS TOO MUCH REALLY TOO MUCH*_
_*what we should all be worried about*_

I write this with great constraint, sadness and a profound sense of loss of faith.

In the last one (1) month, three doctors lost their lives. Three members of NARD lost their lives.
1. Dr. Salome Oboyi, A Senior Registrar in the Obs and Gynae department of BHUTH Jos
2. ⁠Dr. Jamila Umar Danhassan, A Registrar in Community Medicine Department of AKTH Kano
3. ⁠Dr. Akinjobi Carrington, A House Officer in LASUTH Lagos.

It would interest us all to know that this brings the number of Resident Doctors who lost their lives in the last four and a half (4 1/2) months to (10) ten.

It would interest you to also know that a Resident Doctor also tested positive (and eventually tested negative for Lassa Fever) in the last 2 weeks.

Will it not baffle your imagination to know that a Resident Doctor is battling for her life in a hospital in Enugu following a road traffic accident?

I am angry, I am scared, I am afraid I may be next, I am awake to my own thoughts these days and a prisoner to it. Nigeria, what have we done wrong as Doctors?

Life is just moving on in Nigeria as if nothing has happened.

Of the 9,000 resident Doctors at the federal level and another 1,000 at the state level, 10 have lost their lives in less than 5 months.

We have lost over 10,000 Resident Doctors over the last 10 years to Migration and we are on course to loose another 10,000 in the next 10 years with a net deficit of about a thousand (1,000) doctors per year.

New recruitment into Residency Training has dropped by more than 40% in the last few years.
Attrition rate out of Residency Training has also increased with over 4,600 doctors leaving the shores of Nigeria in 2024 alone.
I am sure, Nigeria did not produce more than this number of Doctors from our medical schools in 2024.

We now have more Senior Registrars than Registrars, more Senior Registrars than there are House Officers in Nigeria.

Add these (now regularly regular) deaths to the statistic, we are surely heading in the wrong direction.

Ten (10) is a few too many, especially in Nigeria where these 10 Doctors by population are suppose to cover at least 100,000 Nigerians with a doctor to patient ratio approaching 1:10,000. WHO recommends 1:600 to 1,000.

We have approximately 25,000-30,000 Doctors currently actively practicing at various levels and strata of patient care in Nigeria. To cover our entire population, we need over 300,000 Doctors.

What the above statistics mean is this. 30,000 Doctors are doing the Job that should be done by 300,000 Doctors. And off the 30,000, Resident Doctors are less than half of that.

When doctors die, or any health care professional die, it is a source for worry and panic.

Is this not a national crisis?
Doesn’t this deserve our attention?
What is killing our Doctors?

What may be responsible? (not in order of priority);
1. Excess work load.
2. ⁠Lack of Motivation and under appreciation.
3. ⁠Poor Remuneration and excess outstanding monetary arrears.
4. ⁠Challenges in career progression.
5. ⁠Lack of Job satisfaction.
6. ⁠Epidemiological and natural distributions of disease entities.
7. ⁠Security challenges.
8. ⁠Inability to afford services in Nigerian Hospitals.
9. All of the above?
10. ⁠etc

10 care givers gone.
10 healers gone when they were needed the most.

Why am I worried;
1. I can be next and the whole country would just move on and I become a statistic.
2. ⁠These hospitals would simply replace them with anyone alive, available and willing. And work will just continue as if…
3. ⁠The Nigerian Health Sector will just continue in its march to decline, silently.
4. ⁠Their families will never be whole again.
5. ⁠The Nigerian Government simply cares little or nothing. The next election is more valuable to Government, certainly.
6. ⁠The Nigerian People are simply too unaware, too poor, too distracted to even notice.

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