From Frogs to medicine: Jim Spires’ eulogy for frog hunter doctor.
BY JIM SPIRE SSENTONGO KAMPALA. John was passionately obsessed with medicine. Unlike some of us, he knew what he wanted to become very early in life. In high school, when they started dissecting frogs in Biology, he hunted for frogs everywhere like a madman. In the exercise, which I found awful, he was already seeing himself conducting operations. When he finally became a medic, his practice remained obsessive, yet always with his signature smile. He sought for knowledge endlessly, and quietly. At the time of his death he had just finished a second Masters in Romania, for which he was paying himself. And he was talking of starting another. When he was bored, he would often pull out his iPad, and it is medical stuff you would see him reading or watching off YouTube. Whenever we were together as a […]
