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ABOUT ME

 


ABOUT ME

‘The  day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.’

-Isaac Asimov


Hello readers! I am Gideon Yawson. A young Ghanaian medical doctor. I am from cape coast in the central region, in Ghana.

I am a product of university of Ghana school of medicine and dentistry . I like reading and writing  and watching movies(all kinds but sci-fi especially).


My inspiration for starting this blog  springs from the fact that  that in our part of the world  good and quality health education is virtually non-existent and that inspired me to take advantage of this platform to reach as many  as I can with life saving and enlightening health information.You will also find fictional stories and poems usually highlighting life in the  medicine and the health industry.


 The goal is to make this blog a source of quality and reliable  health education  content that is easily understood and applied.The stories are meant to make the experience on this blog more fun.


 I believe that people should take the responsibility  of protecting and improving their health into their own hands by actively  learning  about it instead of waiting for someone else to ‘save’ them.



I hope you learn something new and important about health and medicine in general so that you don’t decay. Enjoy the intriguing content of this blog.Thank you.


AKWAABA !


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