kingreign:

That you met doctors who had no idea of what to do does NOT give you the right to advise people to consult Google when they want to visit doctors. It's a very wrong and dangerous idea you are giving to people.

You ought to know that there are specialist for various ailment and colloquially, they're called physians or doctors.

Also, it should be noted that Nigerian Healthcare is alarmingly grossly under staffed with specialist healthcare professionals.

Otunbakayce:
Fine, don't go to hospital anymore just make google your Doctor.
So a Doctor trying to make a differential diagnosis of drug abuse which is rampant among youths is now incompetent.
The MOD that pushed this yeah to the front page needs to be relieved of his job.

Machinegun91:
My newly married wife can not give birth because of wrong appendix surgery by an incompetent doctor.

Her stomach is deformed

King3urna:
They killed my pregnant wife giving birth with there stupid mistakes and left me to die of depression 😡

Wizuman:


Always consult Google any time you are with these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

Machinegun91:
My newly married wife can not give birth because of wrong appendix surgery by an incompetent doctor.

Her stomach is deformed

MrWondah:
I usually had this episode of stomach ache. Over time it became so serious that the pains normally lasts days.
During this episodes I’ll throw up. Once I do I’ll feel better.
After which the pains would move to my abdomen.
On one such occasion, I decided to visit a private clinic. After spending so much time, I met the doctor he examined me and said it was appendicitis. He didn’t perform any test. He told me I’ll be admitted for surgery the same day. The only thing that saved me was because I didn’t have the 500k in my account.
I went home, went for a lab test and was told it’s excessive gas in my stomach.
I went with the result to another hospital where drugs were prescribed.
Na so dem for don tear my belle o

KOMBE:
A dentist removed a wrong tooth instead of the one paining me. When I discovered the mistake I felt like strangulating him

Wizuman:
I have heard the saying that "[i]the doctors know bette[/i]r", but it is not always the truth.. I have encountered terrible and poorly trained doctors. I will cite 2 scenarios.
1. About a decade ago, my uncle who had been having feverish feeling woke up one morning with blood stains in his eyes. I was assigned to take him to a popular church hospital, somewhere in Oloosha mushin. On getting there, the doctor on duty examined him and concluded we had to start eye treatment, that the eye must have been injured. He asked if d man ever had any thing hit him in the eye, and the man answered no, yet the fùfú doctor insisted we must commence eye treatment. Anyway we left because their fee were too high.
We then went to Mushin Local Govt Community hospital in Palm Avenue. The doctor on seat was a graduate of OAU, whom I knew earlier in the neighbourhood. We exchanged pleasantries and he started diagnosis on my uncle. Guess what, after the excellent diagnosis, he deduced that the man's BP rose so much and his veins (including the one in d eyeball bursted). We starred BP treatment, and to God's glory, the man's health was stabilised and his eyes were clear in a short time.

2. M The second one happened in 2019, to my church member who was down with fever. He was in a community hospital around Ayobo, Lagos, and the female doctor knew he needed urgent malaria treatment, so she ordered us to take him to the general hospital somewhere in Alimosho. On getting to d general hospital, the doctor on duty refused to attend to him. In fact we saw the doctor a few meters away discussing with a lady. When I saw the situation of the brother, I picked him and we went to join the doctor, and he grudgingly disengaged d lady.
The diagnosis started and the doctor said "I saw u when u guys came in, u were staggering. Tell me the truth, do use any drugs? ". The young man answered *no*. Then the doctor responded, "u are not ready to be helped".
The young patient brought out his cellphone and said "sir I saw it online that when malaria parasites cumulative so much in d blood stream, they can block the blood vessels supplying the brain, thus affecting balance, memory and so on". The young man is not even anything near a medical professional. He was a struggling graduate, trying to explore computer programming career.
The doctor felt so embarrassed and answered "aren't u a Christian? Are u supposed to believe such....", in an attempt to cover for his failure. Then he wrote something in a paper and gave me, asked me to take it to d pharmacy. It was MALARIA injection that was written there. I bought it and he directed us to somewhere nurses were, and the young man was given d injection, and we also bought malaria medications on the counter, and to cut long story short, the young man recovered.

Always consult Google any time you are with these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

shortgun:
They prescribed a drug that killed my dad who was suffering from prostate cancer.

After injecting him with it his condition deteriorated and he died after few days.
A doctor in the US after reviewing treatment my late dad received concluded they shouldn't have administered that particular drug.

The annoying part is doctors are always not held accountable and they are always exhibiting nonchalant attitude together with their nurses from hell.

Juniorangel:
Back in secondary school I was sick and was admitted, so after lab results came out it was malaria and the next step was to commence treatment but the doctor was not around my condition was very bad mumsy was telling the nurse to start treatment since it was just drip and some injections but the nurse decided to wait for the doctor since it was just 9am that the doctor was already on his way, we waited for doctor until 3pm doctor was nowhere to be found and the nurse decided to start treatment with just the drip, I was on my second drip when doctor showed up around 8pm and drunk he was mad at the nurse for starting treatment without him next thing doctor did was to remove my drip that was going well ooo and said the nurse doesn't know how to put drip... Na so doctor start to poke my arms looking for vein, he finally found one and after like 5 mins my hand started swelling up that was when my mum begged the nurse to remove it and put it back like she did the first time. I later found out from a friend that that particular day the doctor was drunk to stupor and even forgot his car where he had gone to drink...

drimzsmoke:


If you should come to me with Google diagnosis, I'd ask you to leave and go and treat yourself with Google treatment!!!

Wizuman:
I have heard the saying that "[i]the doctors know bette[/i]r", but it is not always the truth.. I have encountered terrible and poorly trained doctors. I will cite 2 scenarios.
1. About a decade ago, my uncle who had been having feverish feeling woke up one morning with blood stains in his eyes. I was assigned to take him to a popular church hospital, somewhere in Oloosha mushin. On getting there, the doctor on duty examined him and concluded we had to start eye treatment, that the eye must have been injured. He asked if d man ever had any thing hit him in the eye, and the man answered no, yet the fùfú doctor insisted we must commence eye treatment. Anyway we left because their fee were too high.
We then went to Mushin Local Govt Community hospital in Palm Avenue. The doctor on seat was a graduate of OAU, whom I knew earlier in the neighbourhood. We exchanged pleasantries and he started diagnosis on my uncle. Guess what, after the excellent diagnosis, he deduced that the man's BP rose so much and his veins (including the one in d eyeball bursted). We starred BP treatment, and to God's glory, the man's health was stabilised and his eyes were clear in a short time.

2. M The second one happened in 2019, to my church member who was down with fever. He was in a community hospital around Ayobo, Lagos, and the female doctor knew he needed urgent malaria treatment, so she ordered us to take him to the general hospital somewhere in Alimosho. On getting to d general hospital, the doctor on duty refused to attend to him. In fact we saw the doctor a few meters away discussing with a lady. When I saw the situation of the brother, I picked him and we went to join the doctor, and he grudgingly disengaged d lady.
The diagnosis started and the doctor said "I saw u when u guys came in, u were staggering. Tell me the truth, do use any drugs? ". The young man answered *no*. Then the doctor responded, "u are not ready to be helped".
The young patient brought out his cellphone and said "sir I saw it online that when malaria parasites cumulative so much in d blood stream, they can block the blood vessels supplying the brain, thus affecting balance, memory and so on". The young man is not even anything near a medical professional. He was a struggling graduate, trying to explore computer programming career.
The doctor felt so embarrassed and answered "aren't u a Christian? Are u supposed to believe such....", in an attempt to cover for his failure. Then he wrote something in a paper and gave me, asked me to take it to d pharmacy. It was MALARIA injection that was written there. I bought it and he directed us to somewhere nurses were, and the young man was given d injection, and we also bought malaria medications on the counter, and to cut long story short, the young man recovered.

Always consult Google any time you are with these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

Fujiyama:

Some posters are up in arms because the god complex of some doctors is being challenged.

Tetracycline is an antibiotic that was once commonly prescribed to children (maybe it still is, i don't know). A couple had heard about a common side effect (tooth discolouration) and gently asked the consultant treating their baby about an alternative medication. The man flared up and asked the couple if they were trying to teach him his job.

Fast forward some years: that baby's teeth are permanently stained today.

Doctors don't know it all. That's one service area where customers/patients should (for their own good) compulsorily exercise their right to a second and third diagnosis with other doctors. That improves the odds in the patients favour.

shortgun:
They prescribed a drug that killed my dad who was suffering from prostate cancer.

After injecting him with it his condition deteriorated and he died after few days.
A doctor in the US after reviewing treatment my late dad received concluded they shouldn't have administered that particular drug.

The annoying part is doctors are always not held accountable and they are always exhibiting nonchalant attitude together with their nurses from hell.

kingreign:


A lot of medical treatment online are highly questionable because the patient (you) have not been tested, your medical history isn't online.

Taking drugs based off of online prescription is very gangerous and it's drug abuse.

Rayd502:
Your last paragraph may not be true.Going through medical school is not a child's play.

While influencing Jamb scores by parents is common practice, getting into medical and surviving the program till graduation is different ball game.

Most times deficient students end up dropping out early in the program.

Maxitomxane:


Why do i have a feeling the first one is Regina Mundi

kingreign:

That you met doctors who had no idea of what to do does NOT give you the right to advise people to consult Google when they want to visit doctors. It's a very wrong and dangerous idea you are giving to people.

You ought to know that there are specialist for various ailment and colloquially, they're called physians or doctors.

Also, it should be noted that Nigerian Healthcare is alarmingly grossly under staffed with specialist healthcare professionals.

Resetinc:

doctors are just the same as lawyers, the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too…

Philomath1212:
Here in Nigeria, doctors and nurses have sent millions of souls to grave due to their quackery but it's a topic nobody wants to explore...

Philomath1212:
Here in Nigeria, doctors and nurses have sent millions of souls to grave due to their quackery but it's a topic nobody wants to explore...

Discountsempai:


This isn't incompetence, it is more often a symptom of a diesease mimicking another disease.

Right sided abdominal pain could be appendicitis, it could also be gas in the stomach, infection in gentials and in women anything from urinary infection to ectopic pregnancy

Error401:
There was a time I had a bulge on my left eye. I googled online and what I saw was similar to a chalazion, every symptoms matched.
When I got to the doctor, he told me I needed to do a scan because it could be attached to my skull and bla bla bla.
I told him I have read about this and I think I have chalazion. He took some minutes to examine again and referred me to an Ophthalmologists. Its a very simple surgery actually, I didnt know why he was talking about scans and all.