The tweet read: “don’t let anyone motivate you otherwise. Medical school is hard”! I couldn’t agree more. Except that I wished I had seen the tweet 6 years ago, maybe I would already be working as a journalist or lawyer or any of the three things I wanted to become when I was 14. Unlike the familiar stories you’ll hear in medical school, medicine wasn’t a childhood dream for me. It was not even a choice until the last minute. Heads up: This is a four-page MS Word document. It's a mid attempt to condense my six-year medical school experience into understandable words. So grab a seat and some food, and let's get this party started! Myth #1: You have to love Science to be a doctor I can confidently tell you that my best subject all through my six years as a high schooler was the English language. I still believe it is. I like Literature as well. I love words and how writers weave them, and I found these miles more interesting than Punnett's square in my Biology textbook. W...
"What have I been up to for more than a year now?" Well, I’ve been living life like everyone out there in their mid-20s, but… Bullying. Needs no definition because we’ve all been involved somehow - as silent onlookers, as perpetrators, or as unfortunate victims. And if you went to school in Nigeria, you will probably start wondering if what you suffered at the hands of Senior Lagbaja can also be called bullying. Dearest, I have bad news for you . While getting the testimony of an old classmate for this story, he said, “Nobody fit bully you now. Everyone loved you.” Being a favourite of many teachers comes with several perks, including never getting a second look from school bullies. Actually, scratch that. *** As a means of decluttering, I've been re-watching old K-dramas, and one of the dramas I watched from this list is Strong Woman Bong Soon , a romcom about an ultra-strong woman and a man who meets the woman who saved him. While I was not very fond of the second ma...
Valentine is just around the corner, couples are being nicer to each other, the red and white outfits are being ordered, the flower shops are restocking, jewellery shops will have increased sales, and just about everyone will be happy because it is the month of Love. There is a crude generalization that children born in November are usually products of Valentine's night. This is as funny as it is witless! During a discussion of the silly statement above, I was asked, "is premarital sex okay"? While I lolled in a chair, I almost choked on my coffee. I wasn't prepared for such a question at seven a.m. Here you go. When I think about sex, morality, religion, and medicine are the parameters that come to mind. Sex is between two people, a man and a woman, or otherwise. But in the traditional society we live in where heterosexual relationships are given priority, the consequence(s) of sex (in this case premarital) is mostly borne by the woman partner. Now l...
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