KingTom: As an undergraduate, for six years I did not have time for myself, no girlfriend, some food, nothing. After graduation someone who knows nothing about medicine starts talking rubbish. Those saying we are show-offs. If e pain you, go back school!

YourHealthlabs:

If you do a little googling you'll find out that majority of the countries still offering m.b.bs are in asia and africa. It's now seen as a third world med.degree.
Though that doesn't take anything away from smart docz, it's an individual thing.

I only get pissed off when some docz make it seem like "UK and US are falling all over themselves to have Nigerian mbbs docz", nothing can be further from the truth.
Let's protect gullible people from swallowing those lies.

Good morning.

allycat: If a patient dies who is blamed, the doctor. If a patient is mismanaged who is sued, the doctor. If I am the doctor and the buck stops on my table when something goes wrong, then nobody should complain when I say I am in charge. If I see a patient whom I suspect has an ectopic and the ultra sound comes back negative, the PCV appears normal and I fail to follow my clinical judgement and operate on this patient and she dies, who will be blamed ? Me, the Lab Scientist or the ultra sound technician.i gave that scenario because I have seen it played out several times. Lab or X-ray reports are normal but the patient I see in front of me has an obvious pathology. Since I am in charge I act on my clinical knowledge knowing that if the outcome is poor I bear the blame. So if you agree that the buck stops at my table, you have to agree that I am in charge.

IdomaLikita: JOHESU say dem sabi pass Dokita!

Goffment say na True!

Nigerians say na True!

Dokita Leave Hospital for JOHESU,

Go dey wit him wife and Pikins dem small!

Nigerians begin Curse Dokita!

If JOHESU dey do better work 4 Hospitu

Why una dey Worry Dokita again na?

Oga Dokita go kill himself for una?

eby001: i can't say much about wat is happening in health service.
now back to my school oau. as at now , there are no more medical floor in our hostels. you'll see part 4&5 students 'scouting' if they can't afford to rent rooms in distant ife environs. i spoke about it with a friend of mine. here is his reply: just continue to endure, shebi govt we pay you well for your interns. iwas thinking 'like wtf'
now medical floor offered to year1 students and those who have connection.
it's man's nature to be TERRITORIAL

onyxo76: so they've collected medical floors in awo,faj etc from you?i'm surprised,it was never like this in my days...so do all of you stay in Gloryland or Oremeji?

DrHesjay: How i wish all these people can taste just 2months in medical school...

Djtm: They are just pissing me off!!! Wtf? Our government is a very useless one for this sort of crap to be going on! What's their own concern about how much other specialists are paid? As long as you're paid what you're worth, you shouldn't care about what others earn. If a programmer has worked for a certain number of years, has so much experience under his belt, he has the right to become a consultant programmer. IMO, doctors are overhyped in Nigeria. Well, our leaders do not give a sh1t, so people can continue to die as long as they can afford to go abroad once they have a slight headache.

Obi411:

This is pure emotional blackmail. Too bad that it is coming from one whom lives are entrusted to. What do you make of soldiers whose duty is to protect the very lives [which you have betrayed now] with their own lives? How many of them have died in the quest? And their bodies are still counting. Yet they are never spoken of, maybe because they never spent 6, or so, years in the university. Or perhaps, they do not pride in the glory of this great responsibility that has been laid on them, as you do now. Understand this: the greatest people on earth are never heard of. Lest you boast in vain glorification of a privilege given to you. Are medical doctors gods? No, they simply are tools in the hand of the Creator. Let them go back to work, knowing fully well that their calling is a service to humanity, which can never be fully requited here on earth. But wait: even a medical doctor earns more than a soldier!

sisiafrika: doctor of teeth sef is talking. Yeye dey smell

jpphilips:

I[b] HAVE SAID IT OVER TIME! JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO AN OPINION DOES NOT MEAN IT IS WORTHY OF PUBLIC CONSUMPTION, SOME OPINION ARE BETTER OFF AT THE BEER PARLOR OR YABA LEFT DEPENDING ON WHERE THE CRANIAL MATTER TOOK A LEAVE.
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For the umpteenth time, Doctors are not asking other fields not to have consultants, neither are they asking them not to strike for salary increment, Doctors are saying that their consultancy is higher than theirs so when you bring yours to the hospital, the Doctor still owns the patient.

Doctors were asked; why like dat? (in Chinese voice) and they said that the Academic curriculum they use to attain to that level is too broad and the other fields are narrowed so they shouldn't be apar. now I have looked at the merits of their arguments and the Doctors are right. (it depends on your IQ level anyways).

You cannot study radiography, specialize in radiography, learn technical certifications on how to fix and maintain X ray machines then you come and say you want to become a consultant, Bros, if you have sense (which I doubt anyways) it is an Insult to doctors and the Federal Govt is so drunk, stup!!d and senseless to allow that injustice to happen.

When I called into a radio programme last night I asked the theater nurse who is the guest on the programme,

Why don't you want to expand your curriculum so that as an experienced Theater nurse you will have the opportunity of being a surgeon?

Nurse: We are not allowed to do that

Me: who are the "we"?

Nurse: Our various Unions and other medical regulatory bodies.

Me: Those unions are supposed to be protecting your interest just like the NMA is protecting the Doctors, why will such a Union impede your academic growth and professionalism?

Nurse: That is left for the nursing guild to answer

Me: how many times have nurses gone on strike this year be it warning or indefinite?

Nurse: once or twice im not sure

me: what were their demands?

Nurse: better work package etc

Me: and you guys forgot the most important thing that would develop your career to be apar with doctors and other health care professionals,
which will help the patient in various ways, eg is when a surgeon/theater nurse is in the clinic and an emergency case comes in, don't you think that the theater nurse/surgeon can save that life in the absence of the doctor?

Nurse: We have to attend to other callers.

From the above conversation, this whole strike is just petty politics and unmerited power tussle, my own annoyance is that people who want to live and earn like consultants refuse to broaden their curriculum to acquire more knowledge but they want to enjoy like people who have accomplished theirs.

It is clear that JOHESU whatever they are called are thieves.

You join the Nigerian Army through Direct short service while your counterpart goes through 5yrs NDA of intensive drilling, yet you want your benefits to be a par?

You join the Nigerian police force today and next year you want to be DIG1, is life that easy for Africans?
why do we love shortcuts?

You sleep 24hrs in a day on Sunday armed with your tithe, you expect the "windows of heaven to open" because Malachi told you so, even God will charge you for cheating his kingdom if you ever get such unmerited favor.

Hearme:

90% of doctors are arrogant. You know only the surface of Biochemistry and physiology. I challenge you to a debate on this. If a PhD holder starts at level 10 equivalent in the university, no honors degree should be granted a level 12 equivalent. Anyway I don't so much blame the doctors, I blame the lawmakers who have spent 15 good years in this dispensation of democracy doing nothing, yet collecting all. If our labour laws and salaries and wages commission do function well there will be less crisis in the system. Only that none of them are seeing, yet they have committees overseeing everything in this country. Its a shame that the ASUP strike is still on and the ASUU issues are still been toyed with. Labour issues might never end unless the political appointees begins to think straight. I'm still baffled that a 8 years serving governor who solicited for your vote to lead is entitled to a live pension while workers who worked for 35years are told to do contributory pension scheme. Why can't the president and governors do contributory pension from their official salary? Why should they enjoy free medical health after stealing much from us? Its really a pain that there is no fairness or even a slight equity in our nation. This challenges will continue unless a thinking government sees to it. I'm not sure confab is dealing with labour issues appropriately at all. PLEASE VOTE WISELY IN 2015.

Doctors are not saying others should not be consultants? Are u sure about that? From all we've been hearing it does seems so.

Then I refuse to believe that nurses, pharmacists etc. are dragging superiority in patient care with doctors.

Then I've said before, medical practice didn't start in Nigeria; do other health professionals in US, UK, Canada become consultants? It seems they do.

If so, why should it be a taboo in Nigeria. I understand in Nigeria, we always like to abuse the system, therefore rules, regulations, and stringent requirement only need to be put into place so that there won't be abuse or any health professional overstepping his/her bounds.

But to put a blanket no no no on any other health professional apart from doctors becoming consultant doesn't seem right.

With the right rules, regulations and requirements put in place, it means not every dick & harry will become consultants. Among these other health professionals, we will have people that are geniuses amongst them. They should be able to aspire to the peak of their careers, making use of the benefits that comes from being recognized as a consultant in your field.

eby001:
dat d situatn now,i'm a dental student and u know gloryland is not meant 4 us.when in pt4 most of my classmate have to scoot.now i'm in pt 5,we are left to decide our fate interms of accommodatn.ATM,d pt6 has not been sortd how can pt 5 complain? not to forget,we nw have to sort hw to shuttle btw college and OAUTHC ourslf

dBard:


Loool.. Nice try

Smh@ how ppl r quick t run down Drs but oh so ready t run t them wen tins go awry.

Overhyped yet important... o.k.o

**still basking in my demigod status**

jpphilips:

A part 5 dentist typing like a handicap, I cant make any sense of what you typed, tomorrow you will want to be the CMD of a General hospital,
Ambitious fvcktards

jpphilips:
I HAVE SAID IT OVER TIME! JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO AN OPINION DOES NOT MEAN IT IS WORTHY OF PUBLIC CONSUMPTION, SOME OPINION ARE BETTER OFF AT THE BEER PARLOR OR YABA LEFT DEPENDING ON WHERE THE CRANIAL MATTER TOOK A LEAVE.

For the umpteenth time, Doctors are not asking other fields not to have consultants, neither are they asking them not to strike for salary increment, Doctors are saying that their consultancy is higher than theirs so when you bring yours to the hospital, the Doctor still owns the patient.

Doctors were asked; why like dat? (in Chinese voice) and they said that the Academic curriculum they use to attain to that level is too broad and the other fields are narrowed so they shouldn't be apar. now I have looked at the merits of their arguments and the Doctors are right. (it depends on your IQ level anyways).

You cannot study radiography, specialize in radiography, learn technical certifications on how to fix and maintain X ray machines then you come and say you want to become a consultant, Bros, if you have sense (which I doubt anyways) it is an Insult to doctors and the Federal Govt is so drunk, stup!!d and senseless to allow that injustice to happen.

When I called into a radio programme last night I asked the theater nurse who is the guest on the programme,

Why don't you want to expand your curriculum so that as an experienced Theater nurse you will have the opportunity of being a surgeon?

Nurse: We are not allowed to do that

Me: who are the "we"?

Nurse: Our various Unions and other medical regulatory bodies.

Me: Those unions are supposed to be protecting your interest just like the NMA is protecting the Doctors, why will such a Union impede your academic growth and professionalism?

Nurse: That is left for the nursing guild to answer

Me: how many times have nurses gone on strike this year be it warning or indefinite?

Nurse: once or twice im not sure

me: what were their demands?

Nurse: better work package etc

Me: and you guys forgot the most important thing that would develop your career to be apar with doctors and other health care professionals,
which will help the patient in various ways, eg is when a surgeon/theater nurse is in the clinic and an emergency case comes in, don't you think that the theater nurse/surgeon can save that life in the absence of the doctor?

Nurse: We have to attend to other callers.

From the above conversation, this whole strike is just petty politics and unmerited power tussle, my own annoyance is that people who want to live and earn like consultants refuse to broaden their curriculum to acquire more knowledge but they want to enjoy like people who have accomplished theirs.

It is clear that JOHESU whatever they are called are thieves.

You join the Nigerian Army through Direct short service while your counterpart goes through 5yrs NDA of intensive drilling, yet you want your benefits to be a par?

You join the Nigerian police force today and next year you want to be DIG1, is life that easy for Africans?
why do we love shortcuts?

You sleep 24hrs in a day on Sunday armed with your tithe, you expect the "windows of heaven to open" because Malachi told you so, even God will charge you for cheating his kingdom if you ever get such unmerited favor.

eby001:
just take it easy, my phone(techno hd11) can't allow more than 512characters. so i have to let out my opinion in that short space. just a phrase to qualify you - KEYBOARD WARRIOR

Djtm:
Haha. Same goes for you

you have some good points there marred by your inappropriate choice of words.

jpphilips:

Guess you were not taught summary in School, hope you wont join JOHESU to demand consultancy, that patient definitely wont be me, ...just kidding!!

jpphilips:

It is only a nematode who ignores the substance in a message but pays attention to the choice of words, typical Nigerian.

eby001: i can't say much about wat is happening in health service.
now back to my school oau. as at now , there are no more medical floor in our hostels. you'll see part 4&5 students 'scouting' if they can't afford to rent rooms in distant ife environs. i spoke about it with a friend of mine. here is his reply: just continue to endure, shebi govt we pay you well for your interns. iwas thinking 'like wtf'
now medical floor offered to year1 students and those who have connection.
it's man's nature to be TERRITORIAL