I have watched with dismay the show of power
and the tussle for leadership in the Nigeria health
sector. I have heard and read the point of view
of the physician, the dentist, the medical lab
scientist, the nurse, the pharmacist, the
radiographer and the physiotherapist. I have also
taken my time to study the curriculum of these
medical professions. They are heavily loaded. To
be sincere, none is easy. I have observed the
students in these professions while in their
different fields of training;The stress they
undergo, the project they present at
undergraduate level and have come to realise
that of the professionals listed above, Medical
lab science students and pharmacy students
engage in the most tasking, time consuming and
financially demanding projects. I stand to be
corrected.

In the curriculum of these professions, Medical
Lab Science, Nursing, radiography and medicine/
surgery, I find pathology as an integral part of
their training. That is to say pathology is a
subset of these professions and not a profession
in itself. Should any of the professionals with
pathology as a subset of their training decide to
advance their training in pathology, such a
professional becomes a pathologist as evidenced
in many non physicians who are members and
fellows of the Royal College of Pathology in the
United Kingdom which is by far superior to any
pathologist here in Nigeria. I shudder and grin
with disbelief when a physician says Medical
Laboratory Science is a branch of pathology. I
think this big lie must stop!!!
Nigerians have been hoodwinked to believe that
the physician is the alpha and omega of
healthcare in Nigeria. I beg to disagree. Many
cases abound where nurses have been the
saving grace of many patients. Physicians many
a time would send patients with physical
disabilities to the orthopaedic surgeon knowing
fully well the best professional for such condition
is the physiotherapist. The patients end up
spending all his life savings on the wrong
professional only to be dumped in the
physiotherapy department when their finances
have been exhausted.
Often cases, patients complain that they have
visited hospitals for certain cases and the
physician could not and has not discovered the
cause of their ailment. Many then attribute their
ailments to spiritual causes. But, some, on
interaction with a medical laboratory scientist,
have been made to undergo tests which the
consulting physician never requested and
BINGO! the cause of the ailment is discovered!

I WOULD RATHER WE HAVE A MODEL WHERE
ALL THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS FORM A
CIRCLE WITH THE PATIENT AT THE CENTRE
BECAUSE IN THE COURSE OF INTERACTION
AMONG THE VARIOUS PROFESSIONALS,, THE
PATIENT GETS A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION
TO HIS/ HER CONDITION.


Patients do not go to
the hospital to see the physician as errorneously
spread by our physicians, we go to the hospital
to seek treatment. Some get the solution to their
challenge only after seeing the pharmacist, some
after seeing the nurse and some, after a visit to
the medical lab scientist. Our physicians usually
mouth international best practice whenever they
want to impose their thinking on the citizens but
will never agree that it is international best
practice to obey court rulings. Imagine what
would be of Nigeria today if our politicians do
not subject themselves to court rulings. Should a
court sack a governor and the governor decides
to sit tight to his post, what will be of that state?
Now let us take engineering for instance. We all
agree that the electrical engineer deal with wires
and connections. Would it be right for the
mechanical engineer to look down on the
electrical engineer saying, " you only connect
wires, so let me supervise your work so that it
you do not interfer with my work and thus be
your head because I do the main thing. I build
the machines". Or for the civil engineer to claim
headship and lord it over the electrical engineer?
Rather, each engineering specialty is
autonomous with each respecting one another -
not so in our health sector.

Also, I have read many times where our
physicians refer to Medical Laboratory Scientists
as Lab scientists, lab technicians and many
derogatory names. This does not make our
physicians more important nor superior. It only
goes a long way to expose their insecurities. I
think they should and be rightly called MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTISTS. No health worker has
ever referred to a physician as a 'ward boy' or
'ward man or woman' which in actual sense that
is what they are. The rocket scientist with so
much knowlegde is yet to make as much noise
as our physicians. Please, let each professional
respect one another.

In conclusion, I call on all politicians, policy
makers, traditional rulers, men of timber and
caliber, state governors, members of the House
of Representatives,the Senate, all government
agencies, all political parties, all NGOs, the
United Nations, the World Health Organisation,
and the Commander in Chief of The Armed
Forces, President Buhari - The Change Agent- to
ensure that the different professional groups in
the Nigeria health sector man the headship of
their various professions without superimposing a
group of persons on another profession inwhich
they do not have a first degree in.
It would be against the law for physicians to say
they would begin to send samples to one group
of persons and ensure laboratory results are
endorsed by them so as to sympathise with
them; when a court of competent juridiction -
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ruled
in the case of NUAHP and the management of
OAUTHC that "NONE CAN ACT, SUPERVISE OR
PERFORM THE FUNCTION OF THE MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTIST HIM NOT BEING A
REGISTERED/ LICENCED MEMBER OF THE
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE COUNCIL OF
NIGERIA."
Please let this fighing and war end and let the
health sector of Nigeria move forward.
James Michael, Biochemist and a concern
citizen of Nigeria.


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cc: lala

The problem is not peculiar to Nigeria

Health and Education.These sectors require huge revamping and policies that'd improve them.but reverse is the case

Disneyboy:
I have watched with dismay the show of power
and the tussle for leadership in the Nigeria health
sector. I have heard and read the point of view
of the physician, the dentist, the medical lab
scientist, the nurse, the pharmacist, the
radiographer and the physiotherapist. I have also
taken my time to study the curriculum of these
medical professions. They are heavily loaded. To
be sincere, none is easy. I have observed the
students in these professions while in their
different fields of training;The stress they
undergo, the project they present at
undergraduate level and have come to realise
that of the professionals listed above, Medical
lab science students and pharmacy students
engage in the most tasking, time consuming and
financially demanding projects. I stand to be
corrected.

In the curriculum of these professions, Medical
Lab Science, Nursing, radiography and medicine/
surgery, I find pathology as an integral part of
their training. That is to say pathology is a
subset of these professions and not a profession
in itself. Should any of the professionals with
pathology as a subset of their training decide to
advance their training in pathology, such a
professional becomes a pathologist as evidenced
in many non physicians who are members and
fellows of the Royal College of Pathology in the
United Kingdom which is by far superior to any
pathologist here in Nigeria. I shudder and grin
with disbelief when a physician says Medical
Laboratory Science is a branch of pathology. I
think this big lie must stop!!!
Nigerians have been hoodwinked to believe that
the physician is the alpha and omega of
healthcare in Nigeria. I beg to disagree. Many
cases abound where nurses have been the
saving grace of many patients. Physicians many
a time would send patients with physical
disabilities to the orthopaedic surgeon knowing
fully well the best professional for such condition
is the physiotherapist. The patients end up
spending all his life savings on the wrong
professional only to be dumped in the
physiotherapy department when their finances
have been exhausted.
Often cases, patients complain that they have
visited hospitals for certain cases and the
physician could not and has not discovered the
cause of their ailment. Many then attribute their
ailments to spiritual causes. But, some, on
interaction with a medical laboratory scientist,
have been made to undergo tests which the
consulting physician never requested and
BINGO! the cause of the ailment is discovered!

I WOULD RATHER WE HAVE A MODEL WHERE
ALL THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS FORM A
CIRCLE WITH THE PATIENT AT THE CENTRE
BECAUSE IN THE COURSE OF INTERACTION
AMONG THE VARIOUS PROFESSIONALS,, THE
PATIENT GETS A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION
TO HIS/ HER CONDITION.


Patients do not go to
the hospital to see the physician as errorneously
spread by our physicians, we go to the hospital
to seek treatment. Some get the solution to their
challenge only after seeing the pharmacist, some
after seeing the nurse and some, after a visit to
the medical lab scientist. Our physicians usually
mouth international best practice whenever they
want to impose their thinking on the citizens but
will never agree that it is international best
practice to obey court rulings. Imagine what
would be of Nigeria today if our politicians do
not subject themselves to court rulings. Should a
court sack a governor and the governor decides
to sit tight to his post, what will be of that state?
Now let us take engineering for instance. We all
agree that the electrical engineer deal with wires
and connections. Would it be right for the
mechanical engineer to look down on the
electrical engineer saying, " you only connect
wires, so let me supervise your work so that it
you do not interfer with my work and thus be
your head because I do the main thing. I build
the machines". Or for the civil engineer to claim
headship and lord it over the electrical engineer?
Rather, each engineering specialty is
autonomous with each respecting one another -
not so in our health sector.

Also, I have read many times where our
physicians refer to Medical Laboratory Scientists
as Lab scientists, lab technicians and many
derogatory names. This does not make our
physicians more important nor superior. It only
goes a long way to expose their insecurities. I
think they should and be rightly called MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTISTS. No health worker has
ever referred to a physician as a 'ward boy' or
'ward man or woman' which in actual sense that
is what they are. The rocket scientist with so
much knowlegde is yet to make as much noise
as our physicians. Please, let each professional
respect one another.

In conclusion, I call on all politicians, policy
makers, traditional rulers, men of timber and
caliber, state governors, members of the House
of Representatives,the Senate, all government
agencies, all political parties, all NGOs, the
United Nations, the World Health Organisation,
and the Commander in Chief of The Armed
Forces, President Buhari - The Change Agent- to
ensure that the different professional groups in
the Nigeria health sector man the headship of
their various professions without superimposing a
group of persons on another profession inwhich
they do not have a first degree in.
It would be against the law for physicians to say
they would begin to send samples to one group
of persons and ensure laboratory results are
endorsed by them so as to sympathise with
them; when a court of competent juridiction -
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ruled
in the case of NUAHP and the management of
OAUTHC that "NONE CAN ACT, SUPERVISE OR
PERFORM THE FUNCTION OF THE MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTIST HIM NOT BEING A
REGISTERED/ LICENCED MEMBER OF THE
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE COUNCIL OF
NIGERIA."
Please let this fighing and war end and let the
health sector of Nigeria move forward.
J tames Michael, Biochemist and a concern
citizen of Nigeria.


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cc: lala

It's no news that our health sector is in shambles.The nurses, pharmacists,and the medical laboratory scientists should play supporting roles and take directives from the Doctors rather than eroding the clinical structures in the Hospitals.

Disneyboy:
I have watched with dismay the show of power
and the tussle for leadership in the Nigeria health
sector. I have heard and read the point of view
of the physician, the dentist, the medical lab
scientist, the nurse, the pharmacist, the
radiographer and the physiotherapist. I have also
taken my time to study the curriculum of these
medical professions. They are heavily loaded. To
be sincere, none is easy. I have observed the
students in these professions while in their
different fields of training;The stress they
undergo, the project they present at
undergraduate level and have come to realise
that of the professionals listed above, Medical
lab science students and pharmacy students
engage in the most tasking, time consuming and
financially demanding projects. I stand to be
corrected.

In the curriculum of these professions, Medical
Lab Science, Nursing, radiography and medicine/
surgery, I find pathology as an integral part of
their training. That is to say pathology is a
subset of these professions and not a profession
in itself. Should any of the professionals with
pathology as a subset of their training decide to
advance their training in pathology, such a
professional becomes a pathologist as evidenced
in many non physicians who are members and
fellows of the Royal College of Pathology in the
United Kingdom which is by far superior to any
pathologist here in Nigeria. I shudder and grin
with disbelief when a physician says Medical
Laboratory Science is a branch of pathology. I
think this big lie must stop!!!
Nigerians have been hoodwinked to believe that
the physician is the alpha and omega of
healthcare in Nigeria. I beg to disagree. Many
cases abound where nurses have been the
saving grace of many patients. Physicians many
a time would send patients with physical
disabilities to the orthopaedic surgeon knowing
fully well the best professional for such condition
is the physiotherapist. The patients end up
spending all his life savings on the wrong
professional only to be dumped in the
physiotherapy department when their finances
have been exhausted.
Often cases, patients complain that they have
visited hospitals for certain cases and the
physician could not and has not discovered the
cause of their ailment. Many then attribute their
ailments to spiritual causes. But, some, on
interaction with a medical laboratory scientist,
have been made to undergo tests which the
consulting physician never requested and
BINGO! the cause of the ailment is discovered!

I WOULD RATHER WE HAVE A MODEL WHERE
ALL THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS FORM A
CIRCLE WITH THE PATIENT AT THE CENTRE
BECAUSE IN THE COURSE OF INTERACTION
AMONG THE VARIOUS PROFESSIONALS,, THE
PATIENT GETS A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION
TO HIS/ HER CONDITION.


Patients do not go to
the hospital to see the physician as errorneously
spread by our physicians, we go to the hospital
to seek treatment. Some get the solution to their
challenge only after seeing the pharmacist, some
after seeing the nurse and some, after a visit to
the medical lab scientist. Our physicians usually
mouth international best practice whenever they
want to impose their thinking on the citizens but
will never agree that it is international best
practice to obey court rulings. Imagine what
would be of Nigeria today if our politicians do
not subject themselves to court rulings. Should a
court sack a governor and the governor decides
to sit tight to his post, what will be of that state?
Now let us take engineering for instance. We all
agree that the electrical engineer deal with wires
and connections. Would it be right for the
mechanical engineer to look down on the
electrical engineer saying, " you only connect
wires, so let me supervise your work so that it
you do not interfer with my work and thus be
your head because I do the main thing. I build
the machines". Or for the civil engineer to claim
headship and lord it over the electrical engineer?
Rather, each engineering specialty is
autonomous with each respecting one another -
not so in our health sector.

Also, I have read many times where our
physicians refer to Medical Laboratory Scientists
as Lab scientists, lab technicians and many
derogatory names. This does not make our
physicians more important nor superior. It only
goes a long way to expose their insecurities. I
think they should and be rightly called MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTISTS. No health worker has
ever referred to a physician as a 'ward boy' or
'ward man or woman' which in actual sense that
is what they are. The rocket scientist with so
much knowlegde is yet to make as much noise
as our physicians. Please, let each professional
respect one another.

In conclusion, I call on all politicians, policy
makers, traditional rulers, men of timber and
caliber, state governors, members of the House
of Representatives,the Senate, all government
agencies, all political parties, all NGOs, the
United Nations, the World Health Organisation,
and the Commander in Chief of The Armed
Forces, President Buhari - The Change Agent- to
ensure that the different professional groups in
the Nigeria health sector man the headship of
their various professions without superimposing a
group of persons on another profession inwhich
they do not have a first degree in.
It would be against the law for physicians to say
they would begin to send samples to one group
of persons and ensure laboratory results are
endorsed by them so as to sympathise with
them; when a court of competent juridiction -
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ruled
in the case of NUAHP and the management of
OAUTHC that "NONE CAN ACT, SUPERVISE OR
PERFORM THE FUNCTION OF THE MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTIST HIM NOT BEING A
REGISTERED/ LICENCED MEMBER OF THE
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE COUNCIL OF
NIGERIA."
Please let this fighing and war end and let the
health sector of Nigeria move forward.
J tames Michael, Biochemist and a concern
citizen of Nigeria.


Source: https://mobile./365753416798373?view=permalink&id=1138092279564479&refid=18&_ft_=qid.6266438345389553417%3Amf_story_key.1138092279564479%3Atl_objid.1138092279564479&__tn__=%2As

cc: lala

It's no news that our health sector is in shambles.The nurses, pharmacists,and the medical laboratory scientists should play supporting roles and take directives from the Doctors rather than eroding the clinical structures in the Hospitals.

@op, why not Google and understand meaning of pathology, medical laboratory staff, pathologist before forming biased opinion.
Wikipedia is OK.