Echi Di Ime
Echi Di Ime is my blog and podcast — a space for reflection on leadership, medical careers, women’s health, and social justice.
I draw on clinical practice, public health, and lived experience to make complex health issues clearer and more human.
What I write about
Women’s health across the life course
Periods, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, and getting heard in care.
Medical careers & leadership
Becoming a consultant involves identity shifts, boundaries, and confidence.
Health, power & systems
Equity, policy, and how structures shape outcomes.
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Explore My Writing
Black Maternal Health in Scotland: the NAUWU Report
Black women in Scotland face higher risks in pregnancy, shaped by experience, access, and systems of care.
This piece reflects on what the NAUWU Report reveals — and what equity in maternal health actually requires.
Beyond Risk: Joy in Black Maternal Health
The narrative around Black and brown maternal health is too often anchored only in pain and disparity.
In this piece, I explore why celebrating resilience, dignity and joy — alongside honest accounts of harm — matters for care, advocacy and equitable systems.
Becoming a Consultant: Things Nobody Ever Tells You
The shift from resident to consultant feels like the first trimester of a pregnancy: exhilarating, unsettling, and full of lessons no one warns you about.
In this piece I share what I wish I’d known in those early months — the unexpected realities, boundaries, and rhythms that shape thriving in your new role.
Imposter Syndrome isn’t Your Fault.
Imposter syndrome isn’t about weakness — it’s a response to spaces that were never made for you.
In this piece I reflect on why high achievers still feel like frauds, and why the real work isn’t “fixing you” but changing the environments that make you doubt yourself.
Why Race Isn’t a Risk Factor
When race is used as a proxy for biology, it quietly embeds bias into care.
This piece explains why race is not a risk factor — and why clinicians must look instead to systems, history, and lived experience.
5 Lessons in Self-Leadership (That I Wish I’d Learned Earlier.)
Self leadership is a critical skill in achieving career success, satisfaction and joy at work. I wish someone had told me this 10 years ago!
C- Sections Vs Vaginal births: are all births are equal?
One in five babies around the world is born by caesarean — but the stories and experiences behind those births are rarely told. This piece weaves clinical context with lived experience to celebrate all births and challenge the stigma around surgical birth.
More Than Hair: Beauty, Exposure, and Reproductive Health
Our skin is our largest organ, constantly in contact with the environment. Black women are disproportionately exposed to toxic chemicals in everyday beauty products, with real consequences for reproductive health. This piece isn’t just about hair — it’s about exposure, power, and environmental justice.
The Dark Side of AI: How Algorithms Fuel Gender Inequality
Technology reflects the world that made it, and too often that world leaves women behind.
I explore how artificial intelligence can either widen inequities or be shaped to support fairer health outcomes.
