trust
as i have mentioned before, all surgeons think they are the best. of course when we ourselves need surgery, there is a bit of a dilemma deciding who is the best qualified to carry out the procedure. so when i realized there was a strange looking skin lesion in my right inner thigh, i decided only the best would do to operate me.
in my rooms i informed the sister i would be carrying out a minor procedure. she immediately prepared everything as she had done for me many times before. only once everything was ready did she look around suspiciously at the empty waiting room and ask where the patient was. i informed her i would...
Source: other things amanzi - January 18, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
trust
as i have mentioned before, all surgeons think they are the best. of course when we ourselves need surgery, there is a bit of a dilemma deciding who is the best qualified to carry out the procedure. so when i realized there was a strange looking skin lesion in my right inner thigh, i decided only the best would do to operate me.
in my rooms i informed the sister i would be carrying out a minor procedure. she immediately prepared everything as she had done for me many times before. only once everything was ready did she look around suspiciously at the empty waiting room and ask where the patient was. i informed her i would...
Source: other things amanzi - January 18, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
trust
as i have mentioned before, all surgeons think they arethe best. of course when we ourselves need surgery, there is a bit of a dilemma deciding who is the best qualified to carry out the procedure. so when i realized there was a strange looking skin lesion in my right inner thigh, i decided only the best would do to operate me.in my rooms i informed the sister i would be carrying out a minor procedure. she immediately prepared everything as she had done for me many times before. only once everything was ready did she look around suspiciously at the empty waiting room and ask where the patient was. i informed her i would be...
Source: other things amanzi - January 18, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
bongi reads
recently i was asked to do a reading of my blog for a sort of art evening for some of the doctors at our hospital. i read only four posts. i have decided to post the first one i read here. (Source: other things amanzi)
Source: other things amanzi - October 1, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
doctor's visit
doctors don't like to go to doctors. i suppose we might see it as a failure or more likely it is pure intellectual arrogance. whatever the reason, there can be no excuses when you need to get an insurance examination form filled out. one way of taking the edge off it is possibly to try to use your conversational skills to awe the poor general practitioner forced to see a colleague in these uncomfortable circumstances.
dr peter swann, a tall dark and handsome man, wise and hyperintelligent, popular amongst women, with a vodka martini (or was that an austin martini, i forget), was required by his insurance company to get a ...
Source: other things amanzi - July 16, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
doctor's visit
doctors don ' t like to go to doctors. i suppose we might see it as a failure or more likely it is pure intellectual arrogance. whatever the reason, there can be no excuses when you need to get an insurance examination form filled out. one way of taking the edge off it is possibly to try to use your conversational skills to awe the poor general practitioner forced to see a colleague in these uncomfortable circumstances.dr peter swann, a tall dark and handsome man, wise and hyperintelligent, popular amongst women, with a vodka martini (or was that an austin martini, i forget), was required by his insurance company to get a ...
Source: other things amanzi - July 16, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
doctor's visit
doctors don't like to go to doctors. i suppose we might see it as a failure or more likely it is pure intellectual arrogance. whatever the reason, there can be no excuses when you need to get an insurance examination form filled out. one way of taking the edge off it is possibly to try to use your conversational skills to awe the poor general practitioner forced to see a colleague in these uncomfortable circumstances.dr peter swann, a tall dark and handsome man, wise and hyperintelligent, popular amongst women, with a vodka martini (or was that an austin martini, i forget), was required by his insurance company to get a si...
Source: other things amanzi - July 16, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
rambo
south africa is such an interesting place. things happen here that surely can't happen anywhere else in the world. take illegal mining in barberton for example.
barberton has some of the oldest deep gold mines in the country, maybe even the world. the gold rush in barberton happened long before gold was even discovered in johannesburg. of course the massive amounts of gold in johannesburg drew all the prospectors away and left barberton as a tiny, insignificant lowveld town with ghost mines. as time went on, it once again became financially worthwhile for the mines to be opened, although really only on a much smaller leve...
Source: other things amanzi - July 6, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
rambo
south africa is such an interesting place. things happen here that surely can't happen anywhere else in the world. take illegal mining in barberton for example.barberton has some of the oldest deep gold mines in the country, maybe even the world. the gold rush in barberton happened long before gold was even discovered in johannesburg. of course the massive amounts of gold in johannesburg drew all the prospectors away and left barberton as a tiny, insignificant lowveld town with ghost mines. as time went on, it once again became financially worthwhile for the mines to be opened, although really only on a much smaller level....
Source: other things amanzi - July 6, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
behind closed doors
most non medical people have little idea what a general surgeon does on a day to day basis (unless, of course, they read this blog). few can imagine us elbow deep in blood and guts in an eternal battle against the angel of death. this is partly due to the fact that what we do borders upon the unimaginable, but it is also due to the rigid controls about who is allowed into the holy realm of the theater. understandably, not just anyone can be present at that most sacred of moments when the knife slides through the skin, opening that which is not meant to be opened. the average lay person will tend to simplify the whole proce...
Source: other things amanzi - June 14, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
behind closed doors
most non medical people have little idea what a general surgeon does on a day to day basis (unless, of course, they read this blog). few can imagine us elbow deep in blood and guts in an eternal battle against theangel of death. this is partly due to the fact that what we do borders upon the unimaginable, but it is also due to the rigid controls about who is allowed into the holy realm of the theater. understandably, not just anyone can be present at that most sacred of moments when the knife slides through the skin, opening that which is not meant to be opened. the average lay person will tend to simplify the whole proces...
Source: other things amanzi - June 14, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
high fiber (regular)
granted, the prof had good hand skills. but i personally had doubts about the depth of his academic knowledge. i wish i could say that as i studied and got up to date towards my finals, i gradually realized that the prof may have been a little behind the times. but there was a more subtle sign that i cottoned on to much sooner.
even as a mere medical officer in the prof's firm, i was always amazed that on academic rounds he tended to swing the conversation towards constipation and how to avoid it with the consumption of enough fiber. far be it from me to criticize a good high fiber diet, but i did wonder how one ende...
Source: other things amanzi - June 7, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
high fiber (regular)
granted, the prof had good hand skills. but i personally had doubts about the depth of his academic knowledge. i wish i could say that as i studied and got up to date towards my finals, i gradually realized that the prof may have been a little behind the times. but there was a more subtle sign that i cottoned on to much sooner.even as a mere medical officer in the prof's firm, i was always amazed that on academic rounds he tended to swing the conversation towards constipation and how to avoid it with the consumption of enough fiber. far be it from me to criticize a good high fiber diet, but i did wonder how one ended ...
Source: other things amanzi - June 7, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
entrepreneur
i would like to say this is a south african story, but , truth be told, when people see the opprtunity to make money off the backs of the stupid and vulnerable, then it is pretty much a free for all (eg, eg.)
at the local state hospital, as it should be, there is an hiv clinic. as the name would imply they treat the many people in our area with hiv using modern antiretroviral medication which is proven to lower the viral load and can turn a once deadly disease into a manageable one, not unlike diabetes.
yet still there is a stigma associated with hiv and it gets treated unlike any other disease. you can't simply test som...
Source: other things amanzi - June 2, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
