‘What’s a uterus?’ Health illiteracy could be the death of us
by Ranjana Srivastava from on (#KSCK)
As a doctor I meet women who believe gynaecological cancer can be caused by promiscuity, and people who don't know how to take their pills. Education is the remedy
It was late afternoon when I walked in to rescue my intern from a heated conversation with a man demanding antibiotics.
"Lifelong antibiotics shouldn't be taken lightly," the intern implored. The man countered: "When my friend lost his pancreas in an accident the doctors said he could get meningitis if he didn't. You want me to die?"
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