Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: David O. Irabor

  • Visitation from the village

    David IraborOyo State, Nigeria The aim of a surgeon is to ameliorate the conditions of patients with the skills you have learned. Since surgery is a science involving aspects of the patient’s anatomy, physiology, and pathology, morbidity and mortality in most patients can be explained scientifically. What many of us are not trained for are…

  • Confidentiality and privacy in public hospitals

    David O. Irabor Ibadan, Nigeria   In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, healthcare professionals are bound by ethical codes not to disclose information given to them by their patients. Yet despite the best of efforts, neither confidentiality nor privacy can always be easily guaranteed, as exemplified by a look at problems encountered at a…