Tag: Nigeria
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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…
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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…