A Physician's Diary

A Physician's Diary

Surviving Lassa: The real story of Dr Usman Abba (II)

Later, your wife reported that you had started speaking irrationally, calling out medical students in the middle of the night for not studying and say

Surviving Lassa: The real story of Dr Usman Abba (I)

The story started on the 29th of December, 2019. A typical cold harmattan night, with the wind howling and the trees swaying rhythmically in tune, sha

Predator

He walked into the consulting room uncertain. A young teenage boy with curly hair and what could be described only as a beautiful face. He had the typ

The many faces of poverty

Some weeks ago, there was a lot of Hullabaloo about what the Emir of Kano said or didn’t say in the speech he gave on the occasion of the 50th anniver

Miracles

‘He can’t talk’ I looked at the tall, middle-aged woman with worry lines etched along her face. She was his mother and looked to be around 65 years of