A friend forwarded me an article from the British Medical Journal titled “Are There Too Many Female Medical Graduates? Yes”. My friend is a Ghanaian woman who is in the research years of an MD/PhD degree at Harvard. She was none too pleased. I didn’t get riled up because objectively the points raised are grossly true. […]
Dying of AIDS in 2008 in the United States
Since the mid-1990s when combination antiretroviral therapy became available in the United States, HIV has quickly become a chronic condition. “Like diabetes” we often say. AIDS is a problem of “Africa” and other “overseas” nations, the general consensus goes. Yet, in the United States, tens of thousands of people are newly infected with HIV on […]
Back to Work
Technically, I have four more days before I strap on the pager again and get an insane amount of calls as I return back to work. But, the holidays may as well be over for me. My next break won’t be until the end of June, well maybe mid-April if you count the research weeks […]
Code Blue Bells in Ghana – The Final Countdown
As I type this Europe’s The Final Countdown is doing its rounds over and over again in my head and being mixed up with TKZee’s Shibobo. Oh, it’s already my last week in Ghana. Sobbing! How soon? So soon! I’m already in mourning. Soon I will be wrapped up in many layers of clothing, shovelling […]
Isolation Precautions at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
As a budding infectious diseases specialist I am interested in infection prevention. I am doing a two month rotation at The Fevers Unit at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. It’s a separate building on the campus where people with HIV/AIDS are taken care of. The focus of my rotation is to get more experience taking care […]