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SURVIVING MEDICAL SCHOOL

Postcards from Nigeria’s medical students and doctors.

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

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

It’s 2 am and I have an exam tomorrow.

I didn’t just witness a birth, I experienced one myself.

I began to replay the examination in my head. Surely, there was a mistake somewhere.

There is no electricity and the solar power setup can only power the bulbs.

One Thursday afternoon, the message I had waited and prayed for over five years finally arrived.

Do I have better things to do with my time than watching movies and series? Definitely.

I wanted to be an engineer. I was fascinated by planes, their structure, and their design.