A recent study has put the process of filling out a death certificate in the spotlight. Barbara Wexelman, MD and coauthors published an article a couple of weeks ago in the CDC’s Preventing Chronic Disease which showed that about 50% to 60% of medical residents from more than half of residency programs in New York […]
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 […]
Surprise Galore
I’m so tired! How did that happen? I’m supposed to be relaxing! I wake up daily around 5:45 am to get to Korle-Bu by 9 am. Whether it is seeing patients in clinic or rounding on the inpatient service they are both mentally draining. To add to that, the more I practice MKSAP questions, the […]
Clinical Case – Herpes Zoster
I am on the inpatient ward of the Fevers Unit of Korle-Bu Hospital in Accra, Ghana. The patient is a woman in her forties. She presented with a 3 day history of a vesicular rash on her lower back, right lateral thigh, and perineum. The rash was preceded by 2 days of pain in the […]
Back to the Clinic of the Fevers Unit
I am now seeing patients in the outpatient clinic of the Fevers Unit at Korle Bu on my own. My partner doctor makes it a point to tell the patients that I may look Ghanaian but I’m obroni (white person or foreigner). They ask for those with good English skills to sit at my consultation […]