ade_tomi

MD 🩺, Aspiring General surgeon, budding Data Analyst, Fan of Manchester united, singer songwriter.

[Chinonso_MD @Obiwetaaku]

In 18 months,
I’ve written the 3 hardest exams of my life
Final year exams
USMLE Steps 1 and 2

Now I can say that I’m 2nd best graduating student in med school with honours and a step 2 result of 275 all these while being a pathology tutor and throwing parties with my friends💀

[goal digger• @Yadua_]

What a journey!🇦🇺

IELTS ✅
AMC 1 ✅
PESCI ✅
AHPRA REG ✅
Specialist Visa ✅

All glory to God.

[Dr. Yonni @kiddiewise_]

I once had a patient who came with a single complaint of metallic taste of 2 days’ duration and insisted I treat him for malaria. He said that’s how he always knew if he had malaria.

I asked him a simple question: Are you on any meds?

He said yes, that he’s currently treating H. pylori–induced peptic ulcer disease and his medications were:
1. Amoxicillin
2. Clarithromycin
3. Rabeprazole

Which of these meds is a cause of his symptoms?

[Ogbunude Oluchi @OgbunudeOluchi]

After 6 years, finally a Doctor!
DR. OGBUNUDE OLUCHI VANESSA
MB;BS (BABCOCK)

Distinctions in:
ANATOMY
BIOCHEMISTRY
PHYSIOLOGY
PATHOLOGY
PHARMACOLOGY
OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
PAEDIATRICS
SURGERY
(8/10)

Thank you Jesus!!!🤍🤍

[Dr. Emmanuel A. Owolabi @_emmaco4real_]

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐀 𝐁𝐎𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐎 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐀 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑

Today, I can finally say it:

I am now a Medical Doctor.

Honestly, this journey did not begin in medical school. It began long before then in a humble home, with intentional parenting, sacrifice, resilience, and faith.

I was not raised with a golden spoon, but I was raised by a mother who would rather spend her last strength and resources investing in her child’s future. That alone shaped me deeply.

In 2017, I graduated as the best graduating student from my secondary school in Ondo State. Like many ambitious students then, I had one dream: the University of Ibadan. I scored 266 in UTME and confidently wrote the post UTME examination believing admission was certain. When the result came out, I had failed.

Till today, I still do not fully understand it.

I appealed the result because I genuinely believed something was wrong. But life moved on.

People advised me to move elsewhere. I reluctantly accepted OAU pre degree, still hoping medicine would eventually happen. During that period, I learned resilience, adaptation, and survival. Eventually, I gained admission to study Agricultural Economics, a course I actually loved because I already had a background passion for agriculture and entrepreneurship.

But deep down, medicine never completely left my heart.

I still walked around OAU College of Medicine sometimes, telling myself, “Maybe someday.”

Then came another dream: studying abroad.

That dream collapsed too.

I wrote international examinations, got scholarships, attended visa interviews across Lagos and Abuja, and was denied visas six different times.

Six.

At some point, I genuinely felt exhausted by disappointment. The painful part was not even failure itself; it was discovering how lonely failure can become. Sometimes people only celebrate proximity to your potential success. When things fall apart, you suddenly realize who truly cares.

But through it all, God remained faithful.

My mother remained supportive.

My guardians stood by me.

A few friends stayed.

And somehow, I kept moving.

After more than a year away from serious academics, I decided to write UTME again. I remember getting to the exam center in Lagos and seeing much younger students around me. At that moment, I prayed one simple prayer:

“God, please give me 300.”

Not because numbers define intelligence, but because after years of disappointments, I desperately needed hope again.

When the result came out, I scored 301.

That moment meant a lot to me.

I chose the University of Ibadan again initially, but eventually realized I could not afford more delays. So I changed my institution to Babcock University.

I knew nobody there.

No mentor.
No doctor in my family.
No clear roadmap.

Just faith, self motivation, and the determination to rebuild my life.

When I resumed in 2021, it was not easy mentally. I was older than many classmates by years. I missed my old friends deeply. But I told myself something:

“We may be in the same class, but we are not of the same class.”

I knew what I had survived.

I knew what I wanted.

And I knew I could not move casually through life anymore.

So beyond academics, I began building myself intentionally. I attended trainings, paid for courses, joined communities, volunteered, led initiatives, failed repeatedly, tried again, built platforms, created systems, and devoted myself to service.

Many people did not realize something:

I was not trying to prove anything.

I was trying to redeem time.

I wanted my pain to produce purpose.

I wanted my delays to produce impact.

Over time, leadership, research, advocacy, mentorship, and systems building became part of my life. I realized the kind of doctor I wanted to become would not be “ordinary.”

I want to be the kind of doctor God uses to build systems that transform lives and empower people.

Not merely buildings.

Not titles.

But people.

Communities.

Structures that outlive me.

Today,

[Joanne🧚 @amahia_joan]

DR. AMAHIA JOAN NGOZI MB;BS (BABCOCK)

Distinctions in:
ANATOMY
BIOCHEMISTRY
PHYSIOLOGY
PATHOLOGY
PHARMACOLOGY
OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
PAEDIATRICS
INTERNAL MEDICINE
COMMUNITY MEDICINE
(9/10)

Thank you Jesus💕

[Rinrin @morinsola__]

After 6 years, finally a Doctor!
Re-introducing DR. TOPE-AWE ESTHER MB;BS (BABCOCK)

Distinctions in:
ANATOMY
BIOCHEMISTRY
PHYSIOLOGY
PATHOLOGY
PHARMACOLOGY
OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
PAEDIATRICS
INTERNAL MEDICINE
SURGERY
COMMUNITY MEDICINE
(10/10)

Thank you Jesus!!!

[YAN🩷 @tiyansays]

It’s Dr. Imade to you now🤍

Distinction in ANATOMY
Distinction in BIOCHEMISTRY
Distinction in PATHOLOGY
Distinction in PHARMACOLOGY
Distinction in MEDICINE
Distinction in SURGERY

This girl is beyond grateful,
El-Roi🤍

[Dr. Yonni @kiddiewise_]

A medical student asked:

"Why didn't you give him a diclofenac injection because he has a history of peptic ulcer disease? He is not swallowing it, so how can it aggravate the ulcer symptoms?"

I wonder why a lot of people don't know this.

Can anyone help clear the air?

[Adeolu needs to catch a break. @_deoluwaa]

A generation ensured HCWs were paid what they deserved. The current medical elders reaped of the dividend and did nothing to uphold the standard, even sabotaging the system.
Our generation seems to be the ones to fight again to ensure every HCW is well-paid.
So help us God!

[Dr. Yonni @kiddiewise_]

The nurse administered this drug in 20 minutes to a 25-year-old man admitted for meningitis.

What reaction are you anticipating? What should have been done before administering this medication?

[Dr Kaothar Folashade Yusuf🩺🧕🏿 @YusufKaothar]

Re introducing🥹🥹🥹
Dr Yusuf Kaothar Folashade
Bsc physiology(Ilorin)
MB;BS (Abuja)
Distinction in Hematology🤭🤭
Distinction in Paediatrics and Child Health🥹🥹
First of her kind 🙌🙌🙌

[Dr. Yonni @kiddiewise_]

•An Interesting Paediatric Case•

Lesson:

From today, any time I see a child with dactylitis, I will never rush to conclude it is sickle cell disease again.

This case humbled all of us.

He was a 16-month-old boy brought in with swelling of the hands and feet, associated with only minimal pain for 2 days. According to the caregiver, this had happened twice within the last 10 months. He was the youngest child in the family and had never been admitted before.

On examination, the child was anicteric, but was mildly pale.

Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was sickle cell anaemia. After all, dactylitis… hand-foot syndrome… vaso-occlusive crisis… that pattern is deeply wired into every clinician’s brain.

[Dr. Yonni @kiddiewise_]

They treated scabies with STEROID CREAM… and this happened.

It was a 3-year-old girl whose parents were from the North Central part of Nigeria. She was a cute toddler, fair and beautiful to behold.

She developed what looked like an innocent rash on her hands and feet. Just tiny bumps between her fingers and toes.
Her mother didn’t think much of it.

She applied a triple-action cream. The rash improved for a few days but then returned. This time, it was very itchy. The child kept scratching until some of the bumps opened up and became infected.

They eventually went to the hospital, where a doctor prescribed benzyl benzoate cream and antibiotics. But the parents felt it wasn’t working as fast as the steroid cream they had used earlier, so they stopped the proper treatment.

Two weeks later, the child returned to the same hospital with a swollen face and legs, and blood in her urine. She was brought in unconscious.

They never imagined that the scabies had led to this condition. A bacteria called Group A Streptococcus took advantage of the infected skin and affected her kidneys.

To cut a long story short, she died from acute kidney injury (AKI).

This story is heartbreaking, but it was preventable.

Please do not joke with scabies.

Do you know what eventually k!lled this child?

[#unBiggen Record @oliveKubmite]

Run it again 🥳🤣💃

2 Star General 🌟

Member, Faculty of Surgery
National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

Thank you Jesus 🙏

[Steeze Surgeon 🩺 @abassajayi]

Re -introducing (according to my colleagues)

Abass Oluwaseyi Ajayi MBBS MNIM MSc MIAD MRCS FWACS FMCS (Neurosurgery)

Alhamdulillah

[Dr Scarface📍🩺 @king_pearxe]

I went to the pharmacy last night and I bought packs of condoms every one was looking at me with judging eyes.

How I wish they knew that condoms are also used during procedures like transvaginal scans, Sono-HSG, and more.

So please don’t be quick to judge someone when you see them with condoms.

[ade_tomi @p_tomi2]

@king_pearxe @Hafaz_the_1st I don’t know why u bother.

[Oloruntoba ✨ @Oloruntoba_Ettu]

8 years ago, I began this journey to become a doctor, after 8As and 1B in my WASSCE and a score of 347 in my UTME.

The journey is finally over, with distinctions in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Internal Medicine.

[ade_tomi @p_tomi2]

@Softmedic While this is ideal, we must also understand that investigations are requested to confirm diagnosis, r/o possible differentials and monitor progress of treatment. It can only be deemed unnecessary if it doesn’t fit into any of such categories.