Medicine. Technology. Art.

Imagine three men in their early fifties with their female lovers enjoying soulful chatter on a bus and Tade, the second man feels surreal about everything going on except the mechanical sound the bus makes. Why? In all of your wildest thinking, you could never imagine that the soulful chatter, present-in-the-moment life make for a once-in-a-lifetime experience for him in about three decades. He looks away from his feelings back to his baseline and compares himself. These other men and women all have tools in their bodies. From prosthetics to implants and everything else, they just cannot walk, smile, hear and be happy without these machines. No, their happiness isn’t necessarily tied to these things, but you would think so because, you. Have you ever had that feeling where you think your phone is ringing or vibrating while in your pocket and it is not? Maybe one day we realise it’s just these smartphones actually misbehaving and they would like us to think it’s all just in our head. N...

  Like most things that directly and indirectly affect all men, healthcare delivery does. Why health and not medicine? Health, presently defined while taking into consideration the different parts that make up a man, seems to be wholesome compared to just medicine. As medical students, the highlight of that definition was including the spiritual entity of men. There is potential for more distinct entities to be added in the future; political health, technological and/or digital health. Healthcare and its delivery have the potential for major changes in the future and this potential is worth delving into, to help countries of the world and policymakers begin to prepare for what will and might be. The bias to focus on the global south in this future was easily discarded for a broader, global review of the possible future of health. There are many moving parts to health care and its delivery and all of them have the potential for major changes in the future, both near and far. More im...

  I always tell my lover I love the video of the song “1 milli” by Davido. And I use every opportunity I get to see the video to tell my muse the reason while grinning from ear to ear, now you get to read it. That video, like most videos that features a lot of people, typical people not vixens, gives me unfound happiness. You see, it’s about the quality of life, portrayed or otherwise, of those women and men on the screen. You watch the “1 milli” video or “Buga” and some other videos that older adults feature and you must notice that they are jumping with glee, full and natural laughter. At that point in time, music is merging with humanity, nature and health. No thoughts about hypertension, diabetes mellitus or osteoarthritis. The new guy, “Official Starter”, who dances with middle-aged and elderly market women confirms this narrative further. Look at her favourite grandma dancing and trying to perform a choreography and you will notice you are less concerned about the perfection ...

Like most things in Nigeria, medical education is plagued by a lot of factors that affect its excellence. A lot of mitigating circumstances affect this very important subset of the entire Nigeria educational structure which by extension affects the future of healthcare delivery in the nation. Issues ranging from laboratory engagements to research expertise are grossly neglected during the "6+x" years most medical students spend acquiring a medical degree. To highlight a few: Structure of medical exams, Topic presentations, External postings, COBES(Community-based education and service) Didactic lectures, Laboratory skills, Final year projects, And many more. For specificity, this writ will focus on the underperformance and underutilisation of final-year research work in the medical community. In most universities, final-year medical students are expected to produce research work which is almost always in the public health course. I had an amazing experience during my final ye...

Forgive yourself. Nothing lasts forever, it could last for a lifetime and maybe some centuries at best, but forever? Never. How many persons who lived just five hundred years ago are being remembered or taught actively? Less than you can imagine. Even the Isaac Newtons of the past centuries are declining in the number of active lessons being taught about their lives and discoveries they made. Their discoveries are important but are built upon so much that a time comes when people don't even go back to alluding any breakthrough based on their discoveries to them except for the "...stand on the shoulders of giant..." cruise. You can go on and on about people who lived just within the last millennium and are never remembered despite doing so much during their lifetime. Props to philosophers and deep thinkers though, it seems they have a fair share of those who are still remembered maybe because the mind of a man is the most complex thing to ever understand and study. There s...

The burden of cancer is beyond the number of people affected, it is in the plans and dreams it destroys and the beautiful souls it annihilates while darkening the hearts of those who are related to the victims. Like most chronic diseases, many scientists have made it their life-long commitment to improving the prognosis of these cancers. However, I think there is a caveat that is not judiciously utilised, as I would not want to state that it is rarely or never used. And that caveat is collaborative work amongst scientists and their studies. This collaborative work includes labs with their principal investigators (PIs) working together, beyond university or funding scopes, to answer specific questions that can bring humanity closer to finding a cure to this menace. But the biggest bane is the knowledge gap between all that has been done and the next questions that should be answered. PIs, together with their team members, usually have questions they seek to answer based on the volume of...