Stretch marks are not a skin condition that needs fixing. It just means your skin stretched faster than it could keep up with, because of things like pregnancy, weight changes, or even normal body growth.
There’s nothing to be ashamed of, or even to shame people for.
"You're a doctor, you should know."
Medicine has 12 specialties, thousands of conditions, and constantly updating research.
No. One. Person. Knows. Everything.
That's why referrals exist. Respect them.
I am Nigerian, and right now my dream is bigger than me.
Only about 4.5% of medical literature globally are represented on Black skin.
That means millions of Black patients are learning from systems that barely look like them. Medical students study diseases on skin tones that are not their own. Doctors are trained with visual references that often fail Black bodies.
That gap has consequences.
So I am deciding to build towards changing it.
I’m starting with a book.
But the larger vision is far beyond that. I want to help build software and medical visualization tools that make Black medical representation impossible to ignore.
This is not just about diversity aesthetics, this is about accuracy, education, visibility and better healthcare outcomes.
One day, I want a Black child studying medicine anywhere on earth to see themselves fully represented in what they learn.
And I believe we can build that future.
Agatha Christie knew poisons so well, her books have been consulted when diagnosing patients. In 1976, a London infant was dying of a rare illness. Her nurses, having read The Pale Horse, realized she had been poisoned with thallium. Murder mysteries saved her life.