by admin | Aug 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
What is epilepsy? Epilepsy is a recurring outward manifestation of a problem with the brain. The medical definition of epilepsy is ‘repeated seizures or convulsions (or fits) due to a brain problem’. How does epilepsy occur? The brain is made up of billions of...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
I belong to several groups of doctors and other medical people. There are those I work with locally in Abuja and we share information and advice through local courses and seminars. There are those I correspond with on Facebook and Twitter who are a variety of doctors...
by admin | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of the reasons that Nigerians fail to trust doctors is in the area of misdiagnosis and the reasons are legion. Diagnosing pneumonia for cancer and calling cancer, Tuberculosis is all too common. Stroke is often misdiagnosed. One of my recent patients with...
by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Many patients and their relatives are frequently turned away from public hospitals because of the lack of bed space for admission. Many emergency cases are turned away from the emergency rooms and left to wander, travelling from one hospital to another. Sadly, since...
by admin | Aug 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
A mother in Oregon sued Portland Adventist Medical Center for $8.6 million after she accidentally smothered her four-day-old baby in a hospital bed. Monica Thompson said that a few days after her son Jacob was born in August 2012, the hospital put her newborn in bed...
by admin | Aug 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
I find it rather amusing and unbelievable that anyone can have a road traffic collision on Sunday afternoon in Abuja. I mean the roads are great to drive on and often quiet with little traffic. So, I am always amazed that people still have head-on collisions and fatal...
