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A LARGE UGALI FOR MY BIRTHDAY PLEASE..?
I sure have missed blogging. Unlike most bloggers and social networking site users who have just showed up after ignoring their blogs, pages and walls for a while; I chose not to complain about the...
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BEFORE THE ALSHABAB START DETONATING EXPLOSIVES IN KENYA…
Most of us are afraid of terrorism, but like most happenings of the day, we often joke about it. There is this gag I find totally off the hook: an Afgan mother, after going through the photo album of...
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THREE WEEKS, FOUR EXAMS AND A COUPLE OF SENTIMENTS
I must admit that I have just had the longest three weeks this year. Somehow, the gods want to prolong the three week streak by adding a fourth week! In fact, I am still negotiating with them for a...
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BIZARRE THOUGHTS FROM A MAN'S HEART
It is said that men and women will never get along. Maybe it is because we all want different things. Men definately want women; but what women want, that is hard to tell. However, one thing that all...
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15 MEDICS ON A DEAD MAN’S CHEST
If you believe that dead men tell no tales then stop reading this for just a sec. Yes, I am talking to you: STOP. Now that I have your attention, laugh at yourself: laugh real hard. You might as well...
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LETTER FROM A CLERK TO THE ALMIGHTY
Dear Almighty,It's been quite a long while since we talked. I know it is entirely my fault. I hereby ask for your never ending forgiveness. I think I should start by saying a big THANK YOU for all your...
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FATHER FORGETS by W. Livingston Larned
Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes...
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MEDICAL SPECIALIZATIONS AND THEIR DAFYNITIONS
Being a medical student is a 'jack of all trades and master of none' affair. It really leaves me at a loss of where I would like to go after the next three years of clerkship and hard labor. But that’s...
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SUPPOSE SANTA WAS A KIKUYU...
Well, it's Christmas again, that short time of the year when the usual activities are replaced by traveling, eating (even while traveling), drinking and making merry. I don’t want to go on about what...
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THE SCARE THAT IS 2012, OR NOT
The Hippocratic Oath requires medics to recognize the frailty of human life; and as such act to save life, not pose as gods. Sometimes however, I ask my self whether human life is really that frail. I...
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A BEAUTIFUL TALE ON THE PARCHMENT OF INSOMNIA
Once upon a time, the Creator needed a hand. After a thought, He conjured a man. He wove around him a weakness for writing, a longing for curing, an eye for the arts and an ear for music and poetry....
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HIGH SCHOOL NONSENSE: THE REWRITE
My high school days were nothing short of hilarious. Where I went to high school, form one students were called ‘nyani’. That’s Swahili for baboon - though in high school context it generally referred...
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ON CLERKSHIP AND DRY BONES
The epitome of a medical student’s life is clerkship: that’s before graduating from med school of course. My clerkship started on a rather interesting note. My first rotation was in Orthopedic Surgery....
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A SURGICAL APPROACH TO THE KENYAN POLITICIAN
My general surgery rotations in med school are so far quite something. This is one field of medicine that I piously revere. See, the job here is straight forward; see a patient, deliberate their fate...
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TWO THREE STORIES, AND EASTER WISHES
It’s crystal clear that April is finally here, and with it, presumably the longest weekend of the year- Easter. Before I disclose my thoughts on April, let me recap a bit on March. March was the month...
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EASTER WITH THE FAMILY
Yesterday was an epic family gathering. One of our beautiful sisters is jumping the broom soon; we had to be there for moral support. The interesting bit for me started with my rather dramatic arrival....
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OF SEX… AND ITS BATTLES
I think cartoons depict our sickest thoughts: the kind we'd get crucified for if we ever thought out loud. And what’s on our gallery today? She wouldn’t kiss him if she was under anesthesia. Ouch! If a...
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ON BLASTS AND SAFETY
Dear Kenyan,I am blogging this on behalf of those more honorable before me and my colleagues helping out at the Kenyatta National Hospital Accident and Emergency department right now. For the three...
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BEFORE YOU DRINK YOURSELF INTO A DITCH…
How I have missed the blogosphere. The things I have been through lately in the medical realm have been immensely preoccupying. If the persistent haunt of incoming examinations severely obliterating...
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IN THE ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
After moments of analyzing my routine activities in internal medicine rotations, I have come to a conclusive pattern that briefly describes my view of what happens. Imagine someone suffering from...
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