A Doctor's "Secret" Notes

Mental Health Challenged

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:23:35 PDT

I recall the event in 2009 Christmas time, when a Nigerian man's pants alighted in flames as he sat in a plane en route to some state in the US - it was a botched attempt of his to blow-up the plane...

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The Republican Tea-Party Express!

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:54:54 PDT

The CNN presented Republican Tea-party express debates just ended - why call it the Tea-party express when clearly not all of the candidates are from that radical GOP base - and it was quite...

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Blog Neglect Blues... Herniorrhaphy That Went Like The Breeze.

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:20:16 PDT

I feel bad having not posted a single health gist or any sort of matter at all on this blog for a long, long while. And I cannot think of a good enough excuse that could justify this huge neglect....

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Cancer, Right Breast

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:38:23 PDT

I'm somewhat in-human it seems when mechanically, I go about on the job, some of the time. Or to put it more aptly, more detached from the normal feelings lay persons would feel at certain...

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Surviving

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:21:34 PDT

Yes, as a privately owned medical centre, we seem to be coping and staying afloat, even after the tragic demise of my maverick, late boss. So, here we have been over the last several months...

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Demise of A Medical Guru

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:32:50 PST

Morale has been low for three weeks stretch, where I work, after my M.D's untimely demise. It indeed was a rude shock when the big man left the Stage and it's hard really, coming to full terms...

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Zero About Health

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:18:04 PDT

I absolutely have nothing noteworthy to post on this health blog of late. I'm a bit tired of the same old yarns about this sickness or that treatment procedure. I feel I need to shake things up a...

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Health Risk - Lady With Two Previous Caesareans In Active Labour

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:09:16 PDT

nf233/Secret/Confidential/Health She was billed for an elective procedure in 6 days. Already booked and remaining healthy while attending antenatal clinic, she had had two previous Caesarean...

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Serpentine Health Monster

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:17:52 PDT

nf232/Secret/Confidential/Health The inflamed, near-gangrenous appendix, finally reared its smelly tip to the surface. Dr Nsisi and I (I as assistant) had battled courageously with this serpentine...

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Search Engine Optimization - "Health" Is Key

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:52:26 PDT

nf231/Secret/Confidential/Health Search Engine Optimization (SEO). That's the name of the game I'm faced with in trying to keep up the health of this here health-blog to the optimum. That is,...

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Intravenous Line For A Week-Old Neonate

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:48:04 PDT

The child had a very high fever by the time I was examining it in the consulting room late in the afternoon. The parents had arrived with the neonate in the dad's arms - they both behaved calmly; I...

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#1 On Google For "Personal" Health Blog!

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:31:30 PDT

I've been neglecting this blog. It's the result of several things combined - I've been busy getting more adept at ways to improve my blog-traffic, and other stuff I'm busy doing. Updates on the...

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Episiotomy-Assisted Vaginal Birth

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 06:41:15 PDT

I just recently delivered a woman of her third baby - a baby girl. I had been called to see an out-patient arrival and so was headed for the consulting room, when I heard the screams coming from...

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Feminine Power - It Fears Not The Cadaver

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:46:08 PDT

I've uploaded a new an interesting account of a by-gone, first-time experience of mine that is truly memorable. Read all about it in the Training Day page, above. It bears the same title as this...

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Ordinary Out-patient Consultation Today

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:02:10 PDT

Nothing exceptional has occured on the job today. I'm a little worried though, of a booked Para one patient in second trimester, on admission for Pregnancy Induced Hypertention. Seems to be a bit...

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Gratitude Sermon

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:35:51 PDT

I'm on a weekend break and the whole family went to Church - which doesn't happen often since my wife and I each run various shifts at our respective jobs. And, that I only recently committed my life...

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Newly-Wed With Lobar Pnuemonia

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:02:43 PDT

She sat quietly but was obviously in discomfort as I raced down my notes of the admission. Clearly, it was a case of Right Lobar Pneumonia and you could see the effort she made with each painful...

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Tendon Repair

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:13:49 PDT

This pretty lady began to cry uncontrollably when I informed her that the very deep cut on the dorsum of her left foot, lateral side, was a little complicated - the tendon that dorsi-flexes the 5th...

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Deadly Diarrhoea

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:11:42 PDT

A nursing staff of ours almost lost her 7-year old niece to Diarrhoeal Disease yesterday. The child apparently had had many bouts of watery stools and was clearly, severely dehydrated and quite...

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Recently Hernias, Now Pnuemonias

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:53:05 PDT

I had a run of kiddies that had Inguinal Hernia repairs done recently - one of them, the two year old girl, didn't turn up on the 7th day post-op as appointed after her discharge on the 3rd day....

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Double-Dip Depression Looming

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:55:03 PDT

I've been working, yeah. Haven't posted for a while though. I really hope Europe and the US can eventually get their economic acts together, with the recent stories going round of a looming second...

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Surgery In A Two-Year Old

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:53:08 PDT

I repaired a Hernia in this bubbly 2-year old female patient. Quite uncommonly seen in girls, it was a right-sided Inguinal Hernia and I was glad when, at the expected moment, the Hernial sac...

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Hypoglycaemic Coma

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:26:54 PDT

Unfortunately, 14 hours had elapsed before one Mr Nwokocha was brought to us deeply unconscious. A known Type 1 Diabetic, he had usually injected himself daily with Insulin - the hormone that his...

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A Patient Dies. .. Blog Brain Block

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:31:41 PDT

A patient just died. This man, admitted a week ago, was old, had a weak heart and so on.. I'm generally not feeling up to speed myself, today. I'm in one of my moods, I guess. I'm out so I'll...

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Penis Aperture Way Off The Mark - Hypospadias

noreply@blogger.com (surgeon) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:15:44 PDT

Dr. Larry was to do a circumcision today. He abandoned the procedure from start when he discovered that the neonate had Hypospadias. And it was the worst degree - the urethral opening, rather than...

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