KNOW YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION AND PRACTICE WITHIN YOUR JURISDICTION
```Dear Doctors```, if you want to work in the Lab, diagnosing patient's samples, get a _*BMLS* Degree_ and not _MBBS_. If you feel too big to go back to School, so as to get your dream Job as a *_Medical Lab Scientist_* and work in your dream Workshop— the *_Laboratory_*, feel free to travel abroad for greener pastures in your Profession.
```The Minister of Labour and Employment:``` *Dr. Chris Ngige (a Medical doctor)* said, and I quote, *_“Who said we don’t have enough Doctors? We have more than enough. You can quote me. There is nothing wrong in them travelling out; as the Country has surplus Medical Doctors."_* - Dr. Chris Ngige: 24th April, 2019.
So because you are surplus in your actual Field and there are no more jobs for you, you think the Laboratory is a place to encroach and survive?�
*News Flash:*
```The Laboratory already has its rightful occupants and they are: MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS. You can't survive there if you're not one. You are incompetent, untrained and incapable of carrying out the work of a Medical Laboratory Scientist.``` A Senior Colleague once told me that a Resident Doctor begged to be shown how to perform ESR test. *Can you imagine?��‍♂* Another Resident Doctor tried PCV Testing and sealed both ends of the capillary tube. *Who does that?��‍♂* ```Even a 200 level Medical Laboratory Science student won't display such degree of ignorance and incompetence.``` _If that was an emergency sample from a patient who's PCV count is urgently needed for Blood Transfusion, the patient would have ran out of time and eventually died.
_ You say you are a Pathologist. A pathologist only interprets the result of a Medical Lab Scientist and has no business carrying out laboratory analysis on any patient's sample. A pathologist interprets Lab results and also advise his medical colleagues on treating special cases associated with his field but what we see in Nigeria is that pathologists want to sign the results he has no input on; he wants to head a Medical Laboratory Department.
*The Nigerian Law makes it clear, _Medical Laboratory Science is a distinct Department and should be headed by a Medical Laboratory Scientist._* Doctors should live and let others live. Enough of incurring into other peoples jurisdiction. It is unlawful for a Medical Doctor to want to carry out routine Diagnosis.
_If a Doctor wants to perform routine diagnosis he should apply for MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE through JAMB; Study for 5 years; Go through another year of Internship; and also another year of NYSC (making it 7 years) after which he will acquire the License to Practice as a Medical Laboratory Scientist._ *Everyone in the Health Sector is important. The MLScientists, Nurses, Doctors, Radiographers, Pharmacist, etc. all contribute to saving the lives of the patients.
_Thus, Medical Doctors shouldn't feel they can work anywhere; that others in the Health Sector are dispensable, while they are not.
_* ```Know your job description and practice within your jurisdiction✌�```
From Dr. Ability