Thirty years ago I graduated in the pioneer class of dental surgeons at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. My head was bursting with knowledge but my hands were very short on experience. It did not take long for me to realize that there is a...
The dental profession is an ancient and noble profession. The earliest known person referred to as a dental practitioner was an African. Unlike the current allusion to dentists as “detoothers”, Hesy-Re, an Egyptian scribe who died in 2600 BC, was...
A brief overview of the history of the medical profession in the last 50 years gives us a sneak view of our health journey as a nation. According to a historical account by John Iliffe, in 1955, Uganda had 216 doctors (124 government employed and...
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