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OPEN EYE(S)
Let’s do a thought experiment. Only YOU exist. There’s no one else. There’s nothing else. There’s no world, no universe, no time, no matter, nothing. There’s no good, no evil—only you, with absolute power. Even impossibility does not exist. What will you do? I know what I’ll do. I’ll first protect my absolute power before…
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DOCTOR AS PATIENT: SUMMARY
Patients don’t want to be just heard; they want to be understood. Sir William Osler, that oft-quoted great Canadian-British Physician, once said, “It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.” Another Oslerism goes, “The good physician treats the disease; the great…
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DOCTOR AS PATIENT
There’s nothing new here. Only my perspective. Literature, both professional and lay, is replete with the topic. I’ve even written on it in the past. In this piece, I’ll be a bit more direct, with less satire (I hope). In my annual birthday message, I intimated to my friends and relatives that I sustained multiple…
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SAD MEN DIE
This month has been a roller-coaster ride for me. So far, I’ve had a fistfight with two days, the 13th (Men’s Mental Health Awareness Day) and the 15th (Father’s Day). What led to the fight, you may ask? Well, they started it. They triggered me. Thankfully, my relationship with this month (which is still Men’s…
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OF AGE
I recently left a job where my age was conspicuously made a negative determinant of my compos mentis, both personally and professionally. I abhor ageism in all its forms! I had to leave. What did I learn from my brief stint at the unnamed aforementioned joint? Gentle reader, please hear me out. What follows is…
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DOCTOR: HOW ARE YOU?
How are you? A simple question, right? Well, it turns out this question gets more difficult to answer the older one becomes. Yesteryear, I unwittingly greeted some of my patients with “How are you?” instead of the usual, “How are you feeling today?” I found their responses interesting and decided to do an anodyne social…
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AN AFRICAN ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Why do Africans (particularly African leaders) love flying so much? Is it a demonstration of power, i.e. riding above our problems or being above everyone else? Is it a celebration of superior intellect? Recently, during take-off on a flight from my homeland, a compatriot of mine remarked in Shona, “Akainvhenda chinhu ichi anga asiri kurara“,…
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L.S10: THE FINAL DECISION
Tino was tired of going back and forth. He decided to conclude the matter once and for all. He had to settle on a definitive decision and run with it. As far as he was concerned, he had only three choices: Tino, Tasha or “us”. That is, to break things off completely, keep Tasha in…
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L.S9: FULL BLADDER
Pot’s Depot was a homely joint. It was clear why Tasha adored it. Everyone knew everyone else. That said, everyone made it abundantly clear that they did not recognise Tino. Tino and Tasha sitting together seemed to pique everyone’s interest. It seemed Tasha had lots of explaining to do after Tino was gone. They sat…
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L.S8: THE FIRST VISIT
Tino had had enough. He missed Tasha with every fibre of his being. A visit to Tasha’s home town was now due. After all, what is a couple of hundreds of miles to cure a heart’s aches? They had been enduring lengthy phone calls ever since Tasha’s graduation. However, there comes a time when a…
Doses and Dices
Writing for the sake of Writing.
Doses and Dices 