Eight years of becoming who I wanted to be!
Yesterday, I was inducted into the medical profession.
All glory to God.
So, allow me to reintroduce myself:
Dr. Rebecca Oluwaseyi Ogunmola
MBBS (UNIMED).🔥
Not that I am feeling entitled o because I am still a young doctor myself but let’s say the truth, it doesn’t make sense for doctors to be climbing bike and keke to work because they can’t afford a car. E no suppose bad like that.
So, I’m here to open the light on the occurrence happening in university of Ilorin, college of health sciences. It’s going be a long thread, so follow through to get the full gist.
Our grandparents used to die from simple scratches. An infection from a small cut and they're gone.
We laugh at that now, because we have antibiotics. We think we are safe.
But truth be told, we’re going back to our grandparent’s exact future where infections can take someone just because our antibiotics stop working.
How? Let me tell you…
Many of you feel a fever and body pain.
And the first thing you do is to go to the chemist to give you Malaria and Typhoid drugs.
“Mix am so e go fit work well”, you tell the chemist.
What you don't know is you're putting yourself in danger. You don't even know if you have typhoid. You've just swallowed powerful antibiotics for nothing.
Or, the doctor gives you antibiotics for 7 days. By Day 3, because you're feeling better, you stop. You save the rest for later.
You didn't kill the bacteria, you just educated them and gave them a small taste of the bullet, letting them survive. So now, when you actually get a serious infection... when you really need that drug...
It most likely will not work. I'm not trying to scare you, but please, for this World Antimicrobial Awareness week…
Let’s stop abusing antibiotics.
Unless you’re sure you have a bacterial infection, DO NOT SELF-MEDICATE.
Deal?
Ngl being a self-aware person doesn't mean i view myself as a good person. i think a lot of people get that confused. it literally means that i am vigilant of both my light and dark side. i have also made peace with my flaws even though i'm always working through them.
Became a Doctor over the weekend.
Dr. Rotimi M.O (BDS Ondo)
Distinction in science of dental material.
Distinction in oral pathology, oral radiology and oral medicine.
Distinction in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Yes and not only is it verifiable, it’s one of the most important and most overlooked stories in the history of medicine.
The slave boy you’re talking about was named Onesimus.
He’s the African who introduced immunisation to America.
Long before “vaccines” existed, many West African communities practiced variolation which is deliberately exposing a person to a tiny amount of smallpox to protect them from severe disease later.
It wasn’t called vaccination then. It wasn’t regulated as it is done now. But the principle was the same: controlled exposure gives lifelong protection.
When Onesimus was enslaved and taken to Boston in the early 1700s, his owner who was the Puritan minister Cotton Mather noticed small scars on his arm.
Onesimus explained that in his homeland, children were intentionally exposed to “the pox” in a controlled manner, and that he had undergone the procedure as a child.
He told Mather plainly: “It prevents you from ever catching the great pox again.”
This shocked Mather because smallpox was killing thousands of people in colonial America.
When a massive smallpox outbreak hit Boston in 1721, Mather pushed the doctors to adopt the African method. Many resisted, but a few physicians notably Zabdiel Boylston tried it.
The results were impressive:
• Death rate in variolated patients: 2%
• Death rate in people who caught smallpox naturally: 14%
A 7-fold reduction in death and it came from African medical knowledge.
This practice laid the groundwork for later methods, including Edward Jenner’s vaccine in 1796, which took the idea and modernised it using cowpox.
So yes, the origins of modern vaccination are directly linked to West African medical tradition and to a slave named Onesimus who preserved that knowledge under unimaginable circumstances.
This is not myth. This is documented medical history.
And it’s one of the clearest examples of how African science shaped global medicine, even when the world refuses to acknowledge it.
Okay, now let’s discuss possible solutions so everyone can have edges in 2026. Feel free to add to this thread.
1. Ask your braider to put that gel DOWN.
2. If you’re doing cornrows with extensions, start with your hair before adding ihairpiece.
Eight years of becoming who I wanted to be!
Yesterday, I was inducted into the medical profession.
All glory to God.
So, allow me to reintroduce myself:
Dr. Rebecca Oluwaseyi Ogunmola
MBBS (UNIMED).🔥