The medical student not limited by medicine
I went through Forbes list sometimes and I can't
remember seeing a medical
doctor or practitioner at least in the top 100 and
then I don't know any
medical doctor who has created 5000 jobs by
being an entrepreneur. Am a
curious person who likes to project into the future
and sincerely as successful
as many of my lecturers are I honestly think
something is missing.
I remember sitting in Medical Psychology class
and my lecturer making it clear
to me that being a doctor might not make you
rich but will make you
comfortable. I find this depressing that doctors
and health care practitioners
are to busy to the extent that they generally have
no entrepreneural goal. This
is so serious that we have few medical
practioners who are political giants
whose political views are widely revered by the
country.
Yes too much work takes our time even from
studentship but I believe that our
intelligence cannot only save lives but save other
aspects of the country! We
should not dream of internship, residency and
consultancy salaries but hope
that it could be a capital to start something! It's
high time we start giving
useful political advices and taking up political
positions to change things! You
don't have to wait till you are named Minister of
Health or the Surgeon general
of the fedration if this postion gets created
eventually.
We can help the government by creating Jobs
through various investments no
matter how small we start, we should not dream
of comfortability when there
could be satisfaction.
Nigerian medics it's time.
Written for COMPSSA magazine by Idowu Joshua
Tolulope
300 Level dental student CMUL, UNILAG.