A Doctor's "Secret" Health Notes

August 13th Dr Larry assisted me in the Theatre in a Lumpectomy operation - the surgical excision of a "lump"- the lump being located at the middle of the back of this man, a company patient. It was a Lipoma, the size of my fist. I usually enjoy the part where I scoop-out the fatty lump whole, using my fingers. It then leaves a pot-hole-like space subcutaneously, which I must then close with absorbable sutures. I failed to mention three weeks or so earlier, a near-fatal incident in the operating Theatre. A male patient almost died even before we began the surgical removal of yet another Lipoma, this time located at his neck, posteriorly. I usually use local anaesthetic just as I did in today's case. This involves injecting the anaesthetic fluid locally, so as to completely deaden that area to pain. I proceeded in similar manner that fateful day, whence upon the patient began slowly to act stuporous. Then he began to have violent spasms while screaming at the top of his...

July 25th Woke up in a rush this morning. I was running late and It isn't decent keeping patients waiting at the out-patients clinic. There was no one waiting as I walked the short corridor to my consulting room. Soon enough they began to arrive. A young lady had a bad finger-nail and this had been so for about a year now. Very soon, I took the lady's hand and wedged a scissor blade deeply into the nail-bed of the affected finger. I was a little suprised that the lady was able to watch calmly as the scissor blade played around, wedged in-between finger-nail and nail-bed. Of course she felt no pain whatsoever, but still I thought her incapable of baring the sight, as would most patients. A local anaesthetic that I had injected around the base of the finger had deadened it to all pain. "Thank you" she said when I was finally done, and then left. July 25th Dr Akindele and I observed a lady's cervix through a speculum inserted into her vagina for that very purpose. ...