It’s almost too good to be true and although I’m still in training pursuing a fellowship, the end of residency is a major milestone. We had a graduation ceremony about a month ago. A lot of spouses, fiances, significant others and children were around. Just a sprinkling of parents and siblings though. The graduation ceremony was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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