A Physician's Diary

A Physician's Diary

2022: Climate change, Politics and Qatar’s World Cup (II)

We have all heard about climate change; its causes, catastrophic effects and what we can do individually and collectively to mitigate these hazardous

2022: War, Strikes, Inflation and Elections (I)

In the future, historians will come to describe 2022 as a sort of pivot in history; marking the end of a turbulent era and catapulting us into another

‘Japa’, Fingerprint Fraud and Matters Arising

On a recent flight from Lagos to Atlanta, I sat next to a middle-aged nurse who lived in Houston, Texas. She had emigrated to the US more than thirty

THAT TOOTH THAT KILLS

Dr Akinlade Akinwaleola  Mr Saleh (not his real name) presented to the accident and emergency unit, late, one evening in an altered state of conscious

Donate a Kidney, Get a Cheque

Last week a young woman came to the clinic with a strange request.  When the twenty-year-old mother of two was asked what her presenting complaint was