Ugo Ezema, MD

A physician writing at the intersection of medicine, culture, and the human experience.

I'm Ugo Ezema. I trained at Tulane, practiced at Ochsner and Terrebonne General, and I'm three times board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonology, and critical care. I run codes, I run a podcast, and I write a newsletter for anyone who has ever wanted a doctor to just answer the question honestly.

The Last Zebra is where I sit down with people who are very good at what they do, in medicine and outside it, and ask how where they came from shows up in that work. Doc Populi is where I write about all of it in longer form.

The motto in the logo is Latin — Dum Spiro, Spero. While I breathe, I hope. It's the most honest thing I know how to say about medicine.

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