As he works his way through his medical training, Ike Anya's grandmother reassures him, saying:
Everything worthwhile is achieved small by small.
It's the 1990s, a turbulent time in Nigeria's political history, and a young Ike Anya embarks on the journey to qualifying as a medical doctor. In a story that charts the triumphs and failures of his student days through to his first demanding year as a house officer, Anya's sharp wit, gentle humour and abounding curiosity present a medical memoir unlike any from the West. Recalling the vibrancy of tempestuous 1990s Nigeria – the political unrest, social change and worsening economy – Anya also celebrates the friendships, minor rebellions and hard graft of student days.
Small by Small is a deeply intimate memoir imbued with determination, compassion and a love of storytelling.
- 320 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 2nd MB: Through the Whirlwind
- The Days of Childhood
- Poison, General Science, Making Choices
- JAMB
- Nsukka: The JAMBite Year
- Protest
- Enugu
- Anatomy
- Pre-clinicals – Enugu Campus Life
- Days of Reckoning
- Starting Clinicals
- 140-Bedded: Real Medicine
- Surgery, a Setting Apart
- This is Not the Teaching Hospital
- Interlude: Uneasy Peace
- The Rise of Abacha
- Short Postings
- Casualty
- Infertility, Miracles and Catching Babies
- Labour Ward
- Catching Babies Further Afield
- Imoke: Standing on the Threshold
- Di Amerika
- Paediatrics and Other Tales from Clinical Examinations
- Failure
- 5th MB: The Final Lap (but not for me)
- Medicine Long Case
- Doctor!
- Going Home
- Now what?
- Real Doctors: The First Year, Lagos
- Faltering First Steps
- A House Officer’s Days
- Losing my First
- Coolu Temper …
- Happy Hour
- A&E
- Thirty-Six Hours: A Surgical House Officer’s Day
- Chukwuebuka, a Memory from Paediatrics
- The Murder of a Heroine
- The End of the Beginning
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
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