Imagine doing the things you love, infusing your career path and your passion so they become peas in a pod. Star Doc has successfully done this as he emphasises that it is his passion. He says, “I’m very passionate about these three things … being a doctor, I’m very passionate about music and I’m also passionate about poetry – and so they come to me naturally.”
Who is Ibe Chiemezie Chukwuma, the Star Doc
Ibe, Chiemezie Chukwuma, monikered Star Doc, is a medical doctor, rapper, poet, and public health advocate who infuses his advocacy in his music. “The name Star Doc was given to me by my classmates” he explains.
According to him, the reason he was inspired, and this idea came to him was the level of deaths that could have been avoided if people were more aware of their health.
In his words, “I started using music to educate people about pertinent health issues for two reasons. First, I was greatly disheartened by the gross degree of ignorance and the avoidable deaths that happened because people were not aware of preventive measures for simple health issues. Secondly, I was not comfortable with the way a lot of health care professionals were passing out health information to the general public…”
He goes further to add that medical practitioners have made medicine boring to the extent that people hardly bothered to be sensitised about their health except there was a need to be. “People tend to see health information as boring and a lot of people listen to health care professionals talk about health issues using big words they cannot even relate to and these people end up being more scared than they were … being someone who is gifted in music and being a medical doctor, I decided to merge these things together, that way I pass out the information in a way everybody can relate to … people get the information and make effort to live healthier lives.”