Magezi Tom·Sep 26Between the white coat and the ward: My year as an Intern Doctor at Jinja Regional Referral…The first thing they don’t tell you in medical school is that the transition from student to doctor isnt a gentle slide. It’s a cliff. One…A response icon2A response icon2
Maria Khan·Feb 26, 2024The fewer the days, the longer they lastI think I have been counting down the days to the end of the internship for 2 years now, even though that seems impossible since it is a…
Maria Khan·Feb 23, 2024Clueless internsAnd we continue to be. The only thing that has changed is how confident we are in being so. And with 6 days left till we are exactly one…
Maria Khan·Nov 15, 2023Hey famReading this at the start of the usual self-absorbed and clearly self-serving message on our medical college class group, I knew one thing…
Maria Khan·Oct 1, 2023Emerging from the caveI don’t know about relief, but I do feel lighter. Like a monk who spent a good part of the year up in the mountains, not a soul in sight…
Maria Khan·Aug 31, 2023Descrubbing from surgeryToday is the day, or was the day. I am still holding on to it, nursing it like an old wound that may still be infected, is still tender…
Maria Khan·Aug 24, 2023Working twice as much or working two jobsYou guys had a great football field, full size and of standard, the speaker at our conference said. This was a ‘student-oriented’…
Maria Khan·Jun 28, 2023Working in the hospital and mental healthBeing purely factual, it is said that doctors, including those in training, commit suicide a lot. In the circles I’ve heard this, somehow…
