Dr. Donald Aniekwe
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Medical Doctor• editor- DoctorsQuarters • Vitkowsky Prize Winner• Nebula Cerebrum organizer• follower of Christ. Mail to: draizident @gmail .com
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I lost a patient a recently, she gave her sister this letter to give me before she passed.
This profession, this profession! This life! 💔😭
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She’d always talk to me about God and about Grace, She’d always pray for me. I began to call her sister Grace. She liked the name.
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@Drweloveu
Sister Grace gave me consent to post our interactions online to uplift other cancer patients and touch doctors to be more human. Some of our interactions have been posted in the past on my WhatsApp story. And also, Sis Grace is a name I gave her that she liked. Valid concern ❤️
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A 66-member team of pediatric surgeons, pediatricians, anaesthetists, cardiothoracic surgeons, nurses, and behavioral scientists have successfully separated conjoined twins at the University of illorin teaching hospital kwara state.
THE TYPE OF NEWS I LIKE TO HEAR!!
BRAVO!!! 👏🏾
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After Peter Obi wins, we would need to look at our national spirit and understanding of unity. America thrives on the diversity that separates us. We are going to need the best minds to do this. We’re going to need the wise, we’re going to need the brilliant.
@PeterObi
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This is apparently the closest any medical movie has come to depicting the state of medical schools in Nigeria. Weird that it’s coming from Bollywood... please who knows the name of this movie? 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Retweet till we find the name.
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During Viva,
Lecturer: Do you come to class
Chika: of course sir
Lecturer: were you in class when I taught inflammation?
Chika: of course sir (smiling)
Lecturer: I am an external examiner
Chika:
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If this falls on your timeline, please retweet to help spread the word. Our colleague, Dr. Amanda, needs our support in a challenging health journey.
Dr. Amanda, has been battling avascular necrosis for over a decade.
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I’m going to become a great surgeon.
I’m going to become a great surgeon.
I’m going to become a great surgeon.
So help me God.
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If you recognize this signature, just retweet. 🥹🥹🥹
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Christmas night was spent in the operating theater. The patient is doing very well and being discharged home today!
I love this!
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In medical school, there were always those students who were unhappy when majority of the class did well. It was not only enough for them to pass, others had to fail for them to be happy. They hoarded materials all the time.
Don’t tag them, if you know anyone, just retweet.
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How I nearly lost my sight.
A couple of months ago, I went for a medical outreach in a village in Enugu. There, an insect got into my right eye and I felt it was nothing. Weeks later, my eye began to hurt. And I hoped it’ll go on its own. It didn’t.
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If you are a Nigerian Doctor/Medical student, please STOP and read this. It might be long but this is an SOS 🆘 to save Nigerian doctors from embarrassment, hunger and depression.
It was not always like this. Nigerian doctors were once considered rich and were able to feed…
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So this guy, a junior reg was punished with weekend call. He did it but on Sunday, he left the hospital at 2am.
He told the truth when he was asked and he was given another 1wk call.
Next day oga tendered resignation letter, he had joined the NHS.
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Why many doctors will not attend to a patient till a deposit is made.
A doctor’s experience:
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Medical students updating their WhatsApp status by 4am on exam morning:
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“Drs are supposed to know everything inside their head, why are they browsing internet”
You watched Merlin right?
You see how each time there was a plague, Gaius would go searching in his books to understand what was going on?
Knowing where to look is part of a physicians job!
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After all their talk about MBBS or BSc.
Truth still remains;
A female Doctor is not a nurse.
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My first encounter with death, I was about 5yrs old. Our neighbor had died. and Twas my mum who verified him dead. I kept asking “mum, when will he wake up?” she told me it was final & I said “when I’m a dr, I’ll cure death”
I can’t do that but I can help make life better.
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TRUE STORY Two nights ago, I was taking a walk late in the night when I heard a girl begging a man to leave her alone. As I walked past them, she kept quiet and I sensed she was in danger and I called her to come.
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EXAM HEARTBREAK 💔:
Knowing the mnemonic, forgetting what it stands for 😭
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Medics go and read your book o! Christmas has finished.
To those medical students that took their books home, it won’t read itself there 😏
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To our doctors,
As you advance in your medical Journey, do all you can to make sure you don’t become the wicked consultant, SR or reg that you dreaded in medical school/ residency.
Let our generation be the ones to remove toxicity and bring in a healthy system.
God help us.
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I will pass my USMLE step 2 with a high score amen
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Please Beware! ⚠️ Placing your feet on the dashboard is the most dangerous position to be in especially if your driver needs to stop suddenly or vehicle is involved in a crash.
This is not cool guys, it could cause serious injuries. Please avoid it.
retweet to save a life
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One day, I asked a med student to pass a catheter, he was a bit jittery but I guided him throughout. His mates where in the background laughing but I kept saying “you’re doing well”
At the end of the procedure he came and thanked me so much.
It’s indeed the little things!
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During Viva
conso1:What is the surgical procedure of choice for unilateral inguinal hernia
Me: laparoscopic mesh
Conso: wrong, it’s Open mesh
Conso 2: he's actually right, in my center, we...
Conso1: no no no, we try as much as...
Conso2: its a wrong practic...
Me :
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Medical School fear 🥶: When you’re waiting for mb result in the hostel and people begin to shout downstairs…
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The year is almost over.
Reply this tweet with a picture of you in scrubs/ward coat (for medical doctors, students, nurses, lab scientists)
Caption name Add where you want God to take you to (specialty/country)
Let me start:
Dr. Aniekwe Donald (Cardiothoracic Surgeon/ 🇺🇸)
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Yahoo yahoo boys preaching against yahoo yahoo on this app.
Abeg Ayo shut up! We know you, the money is not from crypto and you’re not a tech guy 😒
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It’s Harmattan Season in Nigeria again, this is another season of respiratory tract infections and another student taking Viva during this time will be asked to differentiate between bronchitis and bronchiolitis in their long case. Here’s how to make them believe you sabi book;
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A Lady was being worked up for mastectomy following a diagnosis of Breast Cancer. She received several courses of chemotherapy and the tumor shrank and was unnoticeable.
At this point her pastor stepped in and asked her to drink ginger water and that she was cured.
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POV: 2mins OSCE, resp. System exam station but patient has recovered and is happily awaiting discharge
Me : When i place my hand on ur chest say 99
Patient : I can even say 100, hehehe😁
Me : do you think we are playing here?
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How I never forget which coagulation pathway PT or aPTT measures.
1) PT- Play Tennis; Tennis is only played outside so; Extrinsic pathway
2) aPTT- Play Table tennis; Table tennis is played indoors so; Intrinsic Pathway.
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Patient: Doctor you always fist bump me instead of handshake
Same patient 2 minutes later:
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Why will a single Doctor be on call for 30days straight? This is MODERN DAY SLAVERY. One young house officer will work back to back for seven hundred and twenty (720) hours. How would he give his best? What do they want to do to Dr. Winners? ⚠️⚠️
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God abeg, just let me pass this mb. I'll start studying early in the next class.
- Every medical student
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A consultant neurosurgeon was kidnapped by policemen because a policeman doesn’t want to pay his hospital bills?
People won’t talk about it as much as they would if the Doctor refused to treat without payment.
We’d have been hearing “He took an ‘oat’ ” up and down
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How to work as a doctor in UAE 🇦🇪 (DHA Step1)
There’s a little trick I’ll be letting you know here on why most people have been discouraged from the Dubai pathway.
Many people have been asking about the UAE pathway, please retweet and follow me if you see this
#Thread
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Since JAMB registration began, I’ve been seeing a lot of docs & med students discouraging people from applying into medicine. I will tell you this, If medicine is what you truly want to do, go for it. It is fulfilling, it has its downsides but don’t listen to naysayers. Goodluck!
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Everything I am and everything I will ever be, I owe to God.
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Best Medical TV Series based on areas of interest.
- If you like Internal
Medicine, watch House MD
- If you like Surgery, watch the good doctor (and House MD 😏)
- if you like Zee world, watch Greys Anatomy.
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Those of you taking your final Mbbs exams this year will excel in Jesus’ name 🙏❤️
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RESIDENT WARD ROUNDS
Resident: who clerked this patient?
Me: it’s my patient Sir
Resident: shut up
You don’t have a patient here, consultants do
CONSULTANT WARD ROUNDS
Consult: Whose patient is this?
Me: the resident said it’s your patient Sir
Resident:
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Med school days: During S3 general surgery:
Snr Reg: Did someone fart
*Silence*
Snr Reg: I need to know if someone farted! I may have perforated a bowel
Dumebi: Sir l'm the one that mess🥺
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Dear Patient,
The medical student you’re refusing to examine you today will be a consultant and your children’s doctor tomorrow.
You want an experienced doctor but you don’t want medical students to gain experience. Do better.
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Every one of you who have supported people with cancer in one way or the other, I wish you all the good things of life. As doctors, the least we can do is to be human and treat our patients as human.
God bless us all ❤️🕊️
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1st year medical students trying to diagnose a patient based on their 2% medical knowledge
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Bringing this back to the timeline, dear
#MedTwitter
, if you eventually find yourself in academics, don’t repeat the same things your teachers did that made med school unbearable for you. Peace 🕊
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5 years ago, I asked my Twitter crush on a date. Today, I asked her to marry me.
Both times she said no, so here is a picture of a random couple I got on google
#WeMetOnTwitter
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First incourse for 2nd mbbs class don comot and Chijioke has removed “neurosurgeon 🧠 in the making” from his bio.
Chijoke aren’t you a Carson again?
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Talking about fake products?
I’ll just drop this photo.
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This guy can single-handedly hijack the professor’s money heist and complete it in less than 24hrs
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I turned, reached into the back of my trousers like I was pulling out a gun and he zoomed off. I walked as fast as I could. I was scared and I no get any gun o. I hope she’s fine, she’d go on to remember me. We might never cross paths again. Don’t harass women!
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House MD is the GOAT of medical series.
Only legends agree.
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Whenever I see the issue of patients paying deposit before being attended to, I remember this incidence. Almost all Nigerian doctors have experienced this. Sad.
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I got visitors today and I was forced to take photos.
These brilliant medical students said I should post them.
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-Sedate patient
-Kill the fish
-Work up patient for surgery.
-Serve surgery team fish pepper soup post op 😂
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Me: GCS of my patient is 7/15
Conso: Are u sure?
Me..yes
Conso: Okwudili!! Okwudili!!
Pt: Ah! Good morning doc, how’s the family?
Me:
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University of Eastern Biafra medical school (now UNTH) 1967.
Look how the beds are dressed with fine linen, how clean the floor of the ward is? How comfortable medical students are in their ward rounds? Ojukwu was at war but Hospital managements made sure they delivered.
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🎙️ Top 9 Medical Podcasts for 2024:
1. Harrison's Internal Medicine Podcast
2. CORE IM
3. JAMA Clinical Reviews
4. Bedside Rounds
5. Emergency Medicine Cases
6. Emergency Everyday
7. Docs Outside the Box
8. Physician's Guide to Doctoring
9. The Undifferentiated Medical Student
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Medical students When the consultant is wasting that annoying SR on a ward round:
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Last week, an elderly woman, a patient, asked me “doc are you leaving Nigeria or will you to stay & help your people, we need docs like you”
It broke my heart hearing her voice her pain when I told her.
I’d go out, learn,get the money & come back to help my people
God help me.
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POV: It’s your first day as a House officer and you tell your pediatrics patient’s parents to go and buy another 5 yellow cannulas after you’ve wasted 10 already trying to set IV line
The parents:
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Dean of clinical medicine wondering what to do after he saw final year Chiamaka googling “what side is the kidney on” after resuming from ASUU strike
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A country where journalists have to put on bullet proof because policemen have guns...
#EndSARS
#Lekkitollgate
#mrmacaroni
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It took me weeks to recover but my psyche was better after the counseling. Dear patient, try to present early to the hospital. Dear doctor, don’t take counseling as a joke, some patients begin to heal from your words.
Thank God, I can see!
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I might get into trouble for saying this but it is not the job of a doctor (reg/HO) to go struggling to get blood from the blood bank. There are people (porters) on payroll for this. Punishing a doctor for not doing this is reinforcing wrong practice. It’s not done anywhere else!
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3rd MBBS Exam:
Nneoma: I'm really tired, I need to sleep
Me: When should I wake you up?
Nneoma: in 40 seconds time
Memories!!! Most medics can relate haha.
NB: The werey Nneoma went on to sleep for a whooping 45mins! 😂
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During exam.
Conso: Did you examine the rectum?
Med student: Yes, I did (*with glowing confidence)
Conso: OK, tell me your findings on DRE.
Med student: Prostate is firm to to...
Conso: What if I tell you this patient had prostatectomy 3 days ago?
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Today is the last day of 2023.
In 2024;
- You will pass that exam
- You will get that Job
- You will get that promotion
- You will get that visa
- You will find your life partner
- You will get that baby
As you say amen, remember to work for it!
Cheers to 2024 🥂
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During Viva
conso1:What is the surgical procedure of choice for unilateral inguinal hernia
Me: laparoscopic mesh
Conso: wrong, it’s Open mesh
Conso 2: he's actually right, in my center, we...
Conso1: no no no, we try as much as...
Conso2: its a wrong practic...
Me :
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Your phone battery drains too fast. One technician suggests optimizing your apps & settings to improve battery life, another recommends carrying a powerbank everywhere you go. You choose the powerbank, and it does keep your phone running, but the underlying issues still exist.
That guys tweet mehn.
I struggle to sleep, and can't sleep for more than 4hrs. Werey Naija doctors kept saying I should lose weight.
Went to the UK and the doctor said I basically could die in my sleep if I didn't get on a CPAP ASAP!
Today, I can sleep 7-10hrs easy!
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Medical School fear 🥶: When you’re waiting for mb result in the hostel and you hear people shout downstairs
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*USMLE, what a Nigerian medic needs to know about life working in USA 🇺🇸 *
>Has 3 parts
- step 1
- step 2
- step 3
> ELIGIBILITY FOR STEP 1: You must be an official medical student/doctor from a school listed in World Directory Of Medical Schools (WDOMS)
#Thread
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GETTING INTO CANADA 🇨🇦 AS A NIGERIAN DOCTOR; SOME PATHWAYS
So let me start with the Not so good news....
1) (for Medical profession) job experience in Nigeria, no matter how many years (Housejob, NYSC,MO,Reg, S-Reg, Consultancy) is not acknowledged by the Canadian system.
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Yesterday, I spoke to students of my Alma Mater who are preparing for WAEC. I gave them words of encouragement and they were so glad to have me. I felt privileged to be in their midst. I will be speaking at a conference of all catholic sec schools students in benue state soon.
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Dermatologist definition:
A dermatologist is a medical doctor who specializes in treating the skin, hair, and nails.
Any other person who has not been to medical school and is parading themselves on instagram as a dermatologist is a thief.
Send to a friend.
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During S3 general surgery:
Snr Reg: Did someone fart
*Silence*
Snr Reg: I need to know if someone farted! I may have perforated a bowel
Jessica: Sir I’m the one that mess 🥺
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I began to consider studying medicine when I was 5 years old. I remember Dr. Aakesh, an Indian doctor who treated me then. He always answered my silly questions. He told me I’d make a good doctor.
I wonder where he is now, wish I can show him I’m taking those steps…
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Back on Med Twitter gains...
If you’re a medic- doctor, nurse, pharmacist,medical students etc...
Let’s increase Med Twitter community... please like and retweet and follow everyone who likes and Retweets ❤️🥼🩺👨🏾⚕️👩🏾⚕️
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All I am, all I’ll ever be is all for you Lord.
Mould me into a tool for your glory.
I’ve found solace in my faith in you.
I love you, Jesus.
Happy Sunday guys.
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