the planmaker:
Secondly, not all the "nurses" you see are actually nurses expecially in private hospitals many of them are quacks trained by doctors illegally to damage the image of our beloved profession so you could refer to them as "semi educated savages" if you like.

Prettychyna: @dr9ce,you don't have to compare because we don't do the same work, so you don't expect the hours to be the same. you insinuated that we don't work as much as you do by comparing the hours,and I was trying to let you know that we don't do the same thing so there should be no basis for comparison. Mind you,most of your colleagues complain about our roaster,don't even know why they should poke nose in other people's affair in the first place.
D way u reply to dis dr just prove how arrogant nurses are.I remember my mum telling me dat when wanted to give birth to me,a particular nurse shouted at her in dis manner,"why don't u die and go" dis occur during that period.we all know that u people are arrogant
Thanks

Lagusta: I may have no right to comment here since I am still a med student, but I believe we all have to work together to make the patient get better, that's our primary aim!!!

Fighting over supremacy won't help matters at all...

I can remember while I was doing my pediatrics posting... A child was convulsing in the ward, the house officer on call went out (maybe to eat) but the head nurse just withdrew the anticonvulsant (don't wanna mention it for ethical reasons) gave it IM and that was it, baby was stabilized... Of course we were like, WOOOW, A NURSE DID THAT

There are good doctors, bad doctors, good nurses, bad politicians, touts, love peddlers, its WHO we are that matters, not WHAT we are...

And please nobody should mention those auxiliary goons as nurses...

chibyboy: Doctors and nurses

claremont:
They are Healthcare assistants/technicians.

No one deserves to be called "semi-educated savages". Since you can support the use of this phrase, I wonder what names you would use in ridiculing your patients behind their back. I'm shocked to my bone marrow that a supposedly highly-trained Nurse would support a reference to Healthcare assistants/technicians as semi-educated savages.

jp philips:

I thought they are romantically involved, why the bashing?

armadeo:
For that dude who wants to be treated by a physicians assistant I wish u all the best. U never know when a single variable changes everything that's the doctors JOB and u'll land back to him when ur assistant has bleeped u up.

adeaugustus:
Is this part referring to me? If yes then i think you must have misunderstood the adjective "Physician Assistant" In my post, that adjective refers to well trained personnel, not the quack you see around in private hospitals. Check "Physician assistant" on Google to see what they do in developed country.

adeaugustus:
Only in Hollywood Movies

AVWENAGHA: the same applies to the pharmacist,doctors makes alot of blunders when they are writing prescription,and wen the pharmacist rectify such errors they are usually angry,to hell with doctors for all i care,i blame naija poor org for this

991:

I love your post, but mind you, not everyone in that profession is like you. there are people who enter nursing/med school not because they care and want to save lives but because the profession is said to be lucrative. i once witnessed a scenario where a doctor was demanding N180,000 to come to his hospital at night to assist in a complicated child delivery. the woman(patient) later died but the child was brought out. in other countries, a doctor would proudly save the lives of both the baby and the mother without demanding for N180,000.

Lagusta:

Guy are you a learner

Don't you know that the doctor-nurse relationship is at both extremes: its either they are toooooooo close or they are very very very very far apart!!!

adeaugustus:
Am indeed a Learner...lol, I used to think such things don't exist in real lifey ni.

silent don: @post, It really baffles me to see the extreme of ignorance or jealousy or both being displayed by some folks.
Some doctors are arrogant, VERY TRUE, but anyone saying doctors' work can be done by other health professionals not trained for such is a murderer and should be arrested.

adeaugustus:

So true, but so far, I haven't read a comment that says "doctor's work should be done by people that are not trained in such aspect"

adeaugustus:
Doctors:
I don't know why most of those guys think they are the one in charge, actually they're not, earlier on this thread i read somebody's comment about the doctor doing the brain work, (that comment breaks my heart). Doctors are not adding any value to the medical profession (at least the ones that are not into research). A very good nurse can always kick any doctor's azz any day any time, A physician assistant will function as a doctor on any given occasion.
I don't like it when they receive the glory that is supposed to be shared by all health professionals!

beautiful Onyi:
learn to accept and live with the fact that the doctor is the HEAD of the health team and always knows better

silent don:


Sir, without need for further explanation or analysis, U DID.

adeaugustus: Nurse:
I respect them a lot, they're always at the fore front with the patients. If a nurse is not too good at what she does, then the Doctor on call should be ready to have a messed up time.
On the other hand, if you meet the cruel ones, you'll not like their profession. Nurses in my school health centre don't bloody care if you're dying, because they won't attend to you until they're done with their food or some other silly things. While I see this as something very bad and unethical, I wouldn't blame them too much because most of the patients they attend too don't really appreciate their service, the government is not appreciating them too (In terms of wages).

Doctors:
I don't know why most of those guys think they are the one in charge, actually they're not, earlier on this thread i read somebody's comment about the doctor doing the brain work, (that comment breaks my heart). Doctors are not adding any value to the medical profession (at least the ones that are not into research). A very good nurse can always kick any doctor's azz any day any time, A physician assistant will function as a doctor on any given occasion.
I don't like it when they receive the glory that is supposed to be shared by all health professionals!
The above comment about doctors doesn't mean i don't respect them, I do respect them alot, because without their help, all medical research and findings wouldn't get to the reach of our people. But what I demand from them is that they should acknowledge those that are helping them to have a successful day at work.

From what i observed, this attitude is peculiar to Nigeria doctors alone, as I was opportuned to read Dr. Ben Carson's book "Think Big" He actually appreciate everybody's effort in the successful separation of the sesamese twins, from the surgical nurse even to his secretary.

Pharmacists are doing a great deal of work too......
Public Health Officers.
Medical Laboratory Scientist.
Biochemist.
Physiologist.
Anatomist.
Therapists.
E.t.c.

adeaugustus:
Physician Assistant are trained for such purpose sir. You used the term "Untrained" in your previous comment.

adeaugustus:
Physician Assistant are trained for such purpose sir. You used the term "Untrained" in your previous comment.