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Healthy relationships are not built by people who never disagree. They are built by people who refuse to let disagreements destroy what they have built together.
Never allow a temporary conflict to make you permanently dishonor a valuable relationship.
This story stopped me in my tracks.
Michael DeBakey invented the classification system for aortic dissection.
He pioneered the surgery to repair it and trained hundreds of surgeons to perform it.
At 97, when it happened to him, he refused the operation.
He knew what the recovery would do to his body as he had seen it destroy patients.
He signed a DNR and went home to die on his own terms, but the condition worsened.
His wife overruled him.
The ethics committee approved surgery after a long back and forth.
The anaesthesia team refused to participate as he had been clear about his wishes, so another team was brought in.
His own students operated on him using the grafts he invented, followed techniques he'd taught them, and they saved him anyway.
He lived two more years.
Went back to work, lectured, trained, delivered speeches, and received the Congressional Gold Medal.
The man who taught the world to fight for every heartbeat had to be convinced at the end that his own was still worth fighting for.
Sometimes, the hardest patient to save is yourself.
(Credit: Lovely USA)
This song should be one of the best beautiful composed and delivered music from Nigeria.
The lyrics
The rhythm
The cultural undertone
It's a genius work of art!
Is part of my all time best song playlist 😁
In all of this discourse, I blame Med Twitter. Always eager to share diagnoses, prescriptions, and medical advice that should be paid for, all in the name of public health evangelism.
You give out so much unsolicited information that it has conditioned people to feel entitled.
✅C-section is NOT weakness.
✅C-section is NOT laziness.
✅C-section is NOT “less of a woman.”
It is surgery.
It is strength.
It is survival.
Stop the stigma. Respect every birth story. 💙
#Caesareansectionawarenessmonth#CaesareanSectionAwareness