Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Nigeria

  • Medicine as we know it

    Ifediba Nzube Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria    Living Afloat by DoDD Brown, 2014. Port Harcourt, Nigeria In the last episode of one season of Grey’s Anatomy, a cyberterrorist hacks into the network of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital and shuts down their cardiac monitors, CT scanners, elevators, and electronic medical records. The hacker demands 5000…

  • 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…

  • Why do Nigerians die?

    Joseph HundeyinLagos, Nigeria A mere glance at the question “Why do Nigerians die?” would lead one to think it is one of the simplest questions ever asked. But on a closer look, one would discover that the question is indeed a deep one with unending answers. It is natural for people to die. Even in…