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I USED BLEACHING CREAMS TO STOP GETTING BULLIED

I don’t really know whether to call what I experienced “bullying,” but looking back now, I think that’s exactly what it was.

Postcards from Nigeria’s medical students and doctors.

I lost my confidence, and it took quite a while to get it back.

I called family and friends and told them, “I don’t think I can do this.”

At a point, it felt like a lot.

I simply lay there, waiting for whatever would happen next.

Here, nothing works the way it should: not the training, not the practice, not the care.

I started asking myself questions: “Am I even intelligent enough to be here?”

Medical school wasn’t a straight path.