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It is sad. We lost two patients today. The pregnant woman with burns whom we sent to Benson Hospital on Friday, died that night. The baby was stillborn. The mother's blood pressure remained low after transfer and she succumbed hours later. I...

I was still in a state of excitement after yesterday's operation, but we have had another even more exciting and horrid event happen in our compound this morning. When everybody was having breakfast and preparing to go back to work, John came in and...

It's a great day for me today. I was called up at 2:30am yesterday morning and later operated on a boy with typhoid peritonitis. I finally returned home at 1am this morning after assisting John with two laparotomies. I had worked almost twenty hours...

Today is Sunday. I'm off duty but still I performed three operations in the hospital while John was making the ward rounds. We received very bad news once we arrived at the hospital. The young man with snakebite died suddenly last night. We really...

Today is Saturday and I'm on call. It's not too busy. I'm back from the hospital after seeing some minor problems in the ER. Yesterday morning, when I was doing the ward rounds to see the woman with the ruptured uterus, I asked her whether she would...