Samuel Edusa MD
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He Walked Away From the Crash. The Trouble Had Started Months Earlier.
The call came in as a routine trauma alert - a car had veered off the road and struck a tree just outside town. The driver, a 37-year-old man, wasn't wearing a seat belt. At first glance, his injuries appeared modest. But there were details that didn't quite fit...
She Arrived Confused and Freezing. The Numbers Told a Darker Story
By the time the paramedics wheeled her through the double doors of the emergency department, nothing made sense anymore—not her words, not her eyes, not the numbers flashing across the monitor. She was 57, small-framed, pale, with a knitted hat pulled too low over her forehead...
Building a Native Telegram Chat Viewer for macOS
I recently built a desktop application to solve a problem I kept running into: browsing through exported Telegram chats. If you've ever exported a Telegram conversation, you know you get a folder full of HTML files that aren't particularly easy to navigate or search through...
I Built a Mac Shortcut to Parse School Flyers
This weekend project started when my wife asked me if I could help her build something to manage the constant flood of emails and flyers she was getting daily. Between school announcements, sports schedules, and after-school activities, she was drowning in event notifications...
Six Fangs Of Georgia
Margaret, a 71-year-old avid gardener, arrived at our emergency department after being bitten by what she believed was a baby rattlesnake...
A Reflection on Service and Responsibility
Walking through the familiar corridors of SGMC Health, I've become accustomed to the daily rhythms of hospital life—the gentle hum of medical equipment, the purposeful footsteps of colleagues...
Building An Evidence-Based Ambulatory Triage Calculator
As physicians, we've all faced that familiar moment of uncertainty in clinic when a patient needs hospital admission, but we're unsure whether they should go directly to the floor or through the emergency department ...
The Human Doctor
The hospital corridors felt heavier that morning. Not from the weight of medical equipment or the urgency of codes being called overhead, but from something more intangible...
Two Weeks in the Emergency Department
Each day in the emergency department begins with uncertainty. During my recent two-week elective rotation as an internal medicine resident, the automatic doors would slide open to reveal the day's medical puzzles—each patient a unique intersection of pathophysiology and lived experience ...
Inside SGMC Health's Internal Medicine Residency Program
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to join my colleague Dr. Anna Ledford on a podcast to discuss our experiences as internal medicine residents at SGMC Health. The conversation allowed us to peel back the curtain on the journey to becoming physicians and share insights into the daily life of medical residents ...
A Christmas Reflection
The halls of our hospital are always bustling, time racing like a precious commodity we can never quite catch. Yet sometimes, a single patient reminds us to slow down and remember why we chose this path. For me, that patient was Mr. B. ...
Building a Paste App
As a developer, I often find myself needing to quickly transfer snippets of text from my computer to my phone. Whether it's a code snippet, a URL, or just a quick note, the process of copying and pasting between devices can be cumbersome ...
Addressing Farmer Health at the 46th Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition
As a healthcare professional, I recently had the privilege of presenting on skin cancer with a focus on farmers at the 46th Annual Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition in Moultrie, Georgia ...
Surviving Helene
As Hurricane Helene howled outside, an unlikely assemblage of strangers sought sanctuary within the walls of a local church. I found myself there, a resident physician volunteering alongside Red Cross staff ...
Building the Azalea Report
The Azalea Report is a digital newsletter designed to showcase the achievements, events, and community of the SGMC Health Internal Medicine Residency program. My goals were to create a visually appealing, responsive design ...
Unraveling AI Lingo (Part 2)
Discovering the perfect resource to quickly familiarize oneself with the ever-evolving world of AI can be a challenge, especially if you haven't been diligently tracking the field...
Unraveling AI Lingo: No-Blush Guide to the Terms You've Been Secretly Curious About (Part 1)
Artificial intelligence (AI) may seem like sorcery, but it's not. Grasping some essential concepts and terminology can enhance our comprehension and utilization of AI...
Heart Stopped in a Heartbeat: The Dangers of Commotio Cordis
Commotio cordis is a rare but serious condition that occurs when the heart is unexpectedly stunned or jarred as a result of a blunt impact to the chest. It is most common in young athletes participating in contact sports....
Why you should be excited about GPT
GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a state-of-the-art language generation model developed by OpenAI. It has been making waves in the natural language processing (NLP) community since its release in 2018....
Discover the power of R: Why I decided to learn this versatile programming language and why you should too!
As a software engineer, I was always interested in finding new ways to solve problems and improve my skills. When I came across R, I was immediately drawn to the language for several reasons. First and foremost, R is a powerful tool...
Contributing to the Pancreas Digital Open Source Insulin Bolus Calculator
During this year's Cognizant Softvision Programmers' Week conference, I heard a very inspiring presentation from an Argentine software engineer about a project he had started to assist in calculating the dosage of insulin for his son, who had recently been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes mellitus.....
The Importance of Primary Care
As a foreign medical doctor who has worked in Ghana for over a decade, I have had the opportunity to witness firsthand the vital role that primary care plays in ensuring that individuals have access to quality healthcare...
How to deploy a React App to Github Pages
In this short tutorial I'll show you how to go about creating a React application and deploying it to Github Pages (a free web hosting service provided by Github)...
Monkeypox
Monkeypox has recently been the subject of several news reports. Monkeypox has been prevalent in Central and West Africa since the early 1970s, but in early May 2022, the illness began to spread outside of that region.
How I built this website
I spent a lot of time researching the best combination of complementary frameworks to build this website, and eventually settled on using NextJS to build it, hosting it in a private Bitbucket repository, and deploying...
