helpee: Must a jugde be a lawyer? Why can't other paralegal professionals aspire to become a jugde. Why can't the accountant general or auditor general be a medical doctor. How can a pharmacist be a medical director? We are talking about people that don't even attend ward round in a hospital? What do they know about laboratory? To put it correctly, doctors are the only health professionals that do postings in every medical field while in school. From pharmacology to pathology to microbiology to medicine to surgery. There is no aspect of medicine that doctors didn't touch. A doctor can effectively man the laboratory wtot any problem infact doctors can specialise in lab medicine. They can specialise in pharmacology. They know a bit about every aspect of hospital section if not more especially wen they specialise in that field. Worldwide a doctor is the head of any medical team according to WHO. Even if the doctor qualified yesterday and the pharmacist has been qualified for donkey years if they find themselves together as a team in any medical mission the doctor is the head. Even NYSC camp doctors head the clinic. If you want to head medical team go to medical school and stop looking for cheap blackmail on a forum

your comment is so dump.

chookudi: @stagger,don't be educationally myopic, the term "medical" does not refer 2 doctors alone but 2 anybody in d medical or health practice, don't we have PHD graduates??are they not called doctors?what differentiates them frm those in d hospitals??its d term "medical", so ur line of argument is lyk a basket tryna hold water, "Must a health minister be a doctor also"??

The problem is people are trying the solve a good problem in a wrong way. Evry division in a hospital has a head. Theree is Chief MedLab Scientist, Chief Pharmacist, AND for nurse, chief technologist. Have u ever heard of a head for doctors I.e Chief Doctor? This is what a Chief Medical Director stands for, the head of Medical Doctors. Buh among all this heads one has grown too powerful cos of tradition even more powerful dn d director of administratn which is supposedly d absolute head. The solution is putting everybody in his rightful place (power)not fighting to occupy someone else seat and empower d Director of Administration

chookudi: @stagger,don't be educationally myopic, the term "medical" does not refer 2 doctors alone but 2 anybody in d medical or health practice, don't we have PHD graduates??are they not called doctors?what differentiates them frm those in d hospitals??its d term "medical", so ur line of argument is lyk a basket tryna hold water, "Must a health minister be a doctor also"??

on point there..tell him/her

[quote
author=chookudi]all over the country,health institutions are headed by
chief medical directors who are doctors, however is it not time for
other health personnels such as pharmacists to take up this role?doctors
seem to see this as their birthright but i beg to differ, or what do u
guys think?[/quote] I think an hospital maid should take up the role

helpee: Must a jugde be a lawyer? Why can't other paralegal professionals aspire to become a jugde. Why can't the accountant general or auditor general be a medical doctor. How can a pharmacist be a medical director? We are talking about people that don't even attend ward round in a hospital? What do they know about laboratory? To put it correctly, doctors are the only health professionals that do postings in every medical field while in school. From pharmacology to pathology to microbiology to medicine to surgery. There is no aspect of medicine that doctors didn't touch. A doctor can effectively man the laboratory wtot any problem infact doctors can specialise in lab medicine. They can specialise in pharmacology. They know a bit about every aspect of hospital section if not more especially wen they specialise in that field. Worldwide a doctor is the head of any medical team according to WHO. Even if the doctor qualified yesterday and the pharmacist has been qualified for donkey years if they find themselves together as a team in any medical mission the doctor is the head. Even NYSC camp doctors head the clinic. If you want to head medical team go to medical school and stop looking for cheap blackmail on a forum

kindly differentiate between a medical worker and a health worker.

reindeer:

Spot on!
Medical schools are open and people can always apply if they want to have the role of doctors.
Nigerians just want shortcuts to everything.

can u imagine the unwaranted ego? SMH.

ay0201: can u imagine the unwaranted ego? SMH.

dere are courses in health administration and management. Doctors shud go 4 dem if they want to be involved in health administration.

i believe so.

Abeg all these views doesn't change the price of fish in the market.....In the real world, the person who build hospital and have money, he can automatically become CMO or even Minister of Health.....All these Nigerian doctors always feeling like they know everything, it's irritating...someone even saying everyone in the hospital is working for them, u obviously haven't worked in a hospital outside of Nigeria because if u have, u will truly see how myopic that statement is.......Physicians cannot diagnose a medical condition without the help of a bio-laboratory. ...u are just part of a team silly!