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My first book, The Chronicles of a Village Surgeon, captures my experiences in rural parts of Kenya, which I will share in a two-part series.
After my training and landing a job in rural Kenya, I would often get frustrated at how a simple disease like acute appendicitis would sometimes frustrate me. The classical textbook appendix patient seemed to elude more often than emerge.
In rural areas, possibly from a delay in health-seeking behaviour, the appendix will land in hospital shouting-from the patient’s face, then the abdomen. Even without lab works, the disease shouts. And that cuts across to perforated peptic ulcers and established bowel obstruction.
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