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Scrubs and Stories is your one stop for all health stories. It features “dear patients” which is a series of letters from a medic to patients. You’ll get to read the minds of your healthcare professionals and see their human sides.
Find articles that empower you to live healthily and take charge of your health. Find stories that help you understand the field of health and medicine.
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Dear Patients
Dear Patients, Most of you like to keep first aid medicines in your homes. Painkillers for headaches and migraines, antacids for heartburns and stomach upset, medicines for when we have loose stools, etc. Some of these medicines have stayed in your homes for years. And you don’t see anything wrong with it. Before you take…
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Chronicles of a Nigerian Medic
ON PATIENT HARASSMENT “Chioma! A nurse is here oh!”, Nneka called out. I had been filling records of all the medicines taken from the mini store into the pharmacy while Nneka and Tola attended to patients. The mini store was a tiny room in the pharmacy. You could not spread your arms wide and turn…
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Busting myths on Hypertension
MYTH 1: You would know if you have hypertension Mrs. Kalejaiye: Mr. Okafor, how are you doing? Did you hear about Mrs. Aisha? Mr. Okafor: Yes. I heard. A sad story indeed. I was told she slumped and died. Mrs. Kalejaiye: Yes. She was fine oh. Everything was fine and she just died. FACT: One…