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As Office Rents Rise, Doctors Get Creative

Physicians with independent practices are having to cobble together unconventional office arrangements at a time of rising costs and consolidation in the medical field.

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Dr. Zarui Chopuryan, an aesthetic medicine provider, working with a patient in her office in New York, N.Y.
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Death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s son prompts calls for overhaul of Nigeria’s healthcare sector

Pleas for scrutiny of system fraught with accusations of negligence after one-year-old’s death in hospital

Nigerians have called for urgent reforms to the healthcare sector after the death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 21-month-old son prompted an outpouring of grief and accounts of negligence and inadequate care.

In a leaked WhatsApp message, the bestselling author said she had been told by a doctor that the resident anaesthesiologist at the Lagos hospital treating her son Nkanu Nnamdi had administered an overdose of the sedative propofol.

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© Photograph: Jared Soares/The Guardian

© Photograph: Jared Soares/The Guardian

© Photograph: Jared Soares/The Guardian

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