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HealthRe: Rape Of Medical Laboratory Science Profession by elder05(m): 6:08am On Feb 11, 2015
kinguwem:
You're absolutely correct. Some of these medical laboratory scientists are quacks. They do consultations & prescription of drugs in their offices. Some prefer to be called doctors by clients.
that's true and my brother they are killing people out there. Sometimes we send patients out for lab investigations and these scientist/technicians after carrying out these investigations go ahead to prescribe drugs for these patients now these patients always come back with complications of which sometimes they don't make it. So as I said earlier OP do ur job and please stick to your job
HealthRe: Rape Of Medical Laboratory Science Profession by elder05(m): 5:06am On Feb 10, 2015
Op if you're crying rape now then I don't know what you'll cry in d near future because automated machines are now being used 2 confirm diagnosis. works like magic and no need 4 any nagging scientist/technician 2 waste my time. So my advice 2 you, do ur job, enjoy ur job and stop nagging about rape cos it won't change the price of normal saline
HealthRe: Rape Of Medical Laboratory Science Profession by elder05(m): 4:48am On Feb 10, 2015
nobilis:
Yes. Nobody is doubting what robotics can do.

But if you go through most of my former posts about such topics as this, you'll discover that I've always maintained one point: everybody is important in the health industry. Every worker is needed because everyone's contribution is needed for the betterment of the patient's health condition.

Now, when people start getting dissatisfied with the roles they are playing in a particular setting and decide on their own that they feel they can and should start doing the work of the other party, what then do you expect but chaos?

For example, is it not laughable that this monstrosity called JOHESU was born out of the need to just vanquish the doctor who you guys always see as arrogant and as a threat to your career? Apart from vanquishing the doctor, tell me, what is the professional connection between a laboratory scientist and a security man? What is the professional relationship between a pharmacist and a janitor?

Also tell yourself the truth, when finally JOHESU is granted their desire of being C.M.D.'s and ministers, will a pharmacist allow a hospital janitor to become a chief medical director, afterall both of them work in the hospital? Will a lab scientist allow a hospital security man to be appointed a health minister, afterall both are employed in the health sector?

There is a reason there is an order of how things are to be done in every particular setting. It is only greed that gives birth to most of these agitations. I daresay that those people who are at the forefront of the fight to vanquish doctors are mainly those who failed out of medical school and were forced to study other health-related courses. They saw it as a slight on their person and what makes it worse for them is when they see their former classmates possibly "telling them what to do". It darkens their minds with hate and regret and they began to poison the minds of other workers in those fields. (I stand to be corrected, though)

One thing you must know is that nobody will allow another person to come and usurp his position, at least without a fight.

U guys say doctors are stifling your careers. But I also heard that it was MLS people that gunned for the suspension of the program that produced lab technicians cos u guys were afraid of becoming irrelevant. (I still stand to be corrected)

As for the NUC issue, I dare ask, since you say it was a doctor's handwork, why wasn't nursing science suspended as well? Why wasn't physiotherapy, pharmacy, radiography, dental technology and so on, suspended? Why was MLS alone suspended? I think you should really try to discover the reason and not stay here and speculate and curse doctors in your mind.

On a final note, no matter what you do or say, you are my colleague. You are my brother in the medical field. Without you my work will be irrelevant; without me your work will be irrelevant. That is the bottomline of the whole issue. So it is either we unite and help our different career paths grow or we keep fighting each other and kill off each other while the patient suffers.
Ciao.
speak no more my brother you've said it all
PoliticsRe: More To Buhari's Certificate. by elder05(m): 5:20pm On Jan 22, 2015
The earlier GMB comes out to discredit this result the better........... Itching to hear what he has to say.
PoliticsRe: Ex Aviation Minister Fani-kayode Statements After APC Primary Election* by elder05(m): 10:16pm On Dec 12, 2014
Well said sir!!
PoliticsRe: Buhari Wins APC Presidential Primary, Confronts President Jonathan In February by elder05(m): 1:14pm On Dec 11, 2014
The race to 2015 won't be an easy one. I hope he looses though #myopinion. Still on GEJ
PoliticsRe: I Have Never Rigged Election In My Life, Says Presidential Aide by elder05(m): 8:18pm On Dec 09, 2014
Ok, alright, we believe you.
CelebritiesRe: Fight With Pdiddy Lands Drake In Hospital by elder05(m): 8:14pm On Dec 09, 2014
Jew man. So im no fit fight? Old man diddy 4 that matter
SportsRe: Liverpool Vs Basel LIVE 8.45pm by elder05(m): 8:09pm On Dec 09, 2014
I see liverpool scaling through to the knockout phase.
PoliticsRe: PDP Gubernatorial Primaries Results by elder05(m): 12:30pm On Dec 09, 2014
Nempi:
Here in Togo, Buhari is winning already.











If na some people now, dem go talk first to comment but I'm too mature for that. if you doubt me, send BUHARI to 30856 or ask the following doctors : Mebirim Lawson, ekechukwu Uzoma, Greeg Abali and Ngige.
agu wey ur man name 4 dat list??
HealthRe: Johesu Strike: Why The Public Silence? by elder05(m): 2:20pm On Nov 24, 2014
drered:
Not really.. Patients were discharged in all the wards I visited when the strike started.. Doctors also couldn't see new patients.. So its effect is just as bad and this shouldn't be about who's got more balls anywayz..
dats not true! Patients r still being attended to like nothing happened. They only go outside 2 get their drugs
Foreign AffairsRe: Ghana Looks To IMF For Salvation As Cedi Falls By 40% by elder05(m): 9:10am On Nov 06, 2014
MadCow1:
[b]Yes...


1 Ghana Cedis = 10,000 Ghana Cedia (before the redenomination).. So Technically, the value is the same..

Now when I lived in Ghana, the Highest exchange rate the Dollar ever reached against the Cedis was 100 Dollars - 1.4 Million Cedis (140 GHC)..

But today, the Exchange rate is 100 USD = 328 GHC (3.28 Million Old Ghana Cedis).. That explains why their currency is in trouble because they are actually getting worse and worse..



The Cedis you see today was created recently after they divided all their currencies by 10,000.. So 10,000 Cedis Note became 1 Cedis.. So 1 Cedis was still buying what 10,000 Cedis was buying.. They only fooled themselves, not Market economics.

So though the numbers look like they are doing better than the Naira, multiply that figure you see by 10000 to get the actual original value of the Cedis..


Ghana would soon come running to Nigeria again as refugees... Thats why I have invested all my Money into this business;


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gbam!!! U really hit the nail on the head
EducationRe: 10 Most Marketable Courses In Nigeria by elder05(m): 2:49pm On Oct 25, 2014
pyyxxaro:
Poultry Engineering

Animal Husbandry.......

These courses are new and very Lucrative , you can find them in most of these private universities*Covenant , igbenidion , Madonna n babcock *
Immediately you graduate , you are sure of getting a job grin
taa!!! Talk well my friend!
Politics10 Signs That We're Headed Into World War Iii by elder05(op): 10:28pm On Sep 17, 2014
When confusion and misinformation get together
in the dark, paranoia is born. Fears of war,
violence, and oppression fester and grow in the
minds of the populace pushing everything but a
misguided assurance of certain doom into the
shadows. Out of this cramped and huddled
mindset we get the bastardized half-brother of
critical thinking: conspiracy theories.
Claiming that World War III is just over the
horizon is as crazy as it gets, but the state of the
world is showing some eerie similarities to the
pre–World War II global picture. And history is a
creature of habit.
10 An Unexpected Invasion

On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers strapped
on their marching boots and took over several
airports in Crimea. As this is being written,
roughly 6,000 Russian troops are moving across
the Crimean peninsula and forcibly taking
operational control of military bases,
communications centers, and government
buildings.
This is an invasion that has been a long time in
the making, and it’s certainly not the first time
Russia has made power plays in the Ukraine. Ever
since 1783, Ukraine and Russia (for a time the
Soviet Union) have played hot potato with
Crimea, leaving a bubbling brew of split
nationalism struggling to coexist on the little
peninsula.
But the arrival of Russian troops is just the most
recent step in a tumultuous few weeks for
Ukraine. The country has seen its Russia-
sympathizing president, Viktor Yanukovych,
become a fugitive, a Russian citizen become the
Crimean city of Sevastopol’s mayor, and an
emergency meeting of Crimea’s parliament elect
Sergey Aksyonov as the new Prime Minister of
Crimea—at gunpoint. Aksyonov has declared that
he will follow orders from the ousted Yanukovych,
who is currently seeking refuge in Russia. The
country’s politics are in tatters.
9 The Ukrainian Conflict Is Reaching A
Boiling Point

Ukrainian nationalists are calling Putin’s invasion
an act of war; Russians in Ukraine are calling it an
act of salvation. Riots are flaring up all across the
country as the two dominant political forces come
to a head. This video shows two men being
beaten by a pro-Russian mob in Kharkiv, the
USSR’s Bolshevik-run capital leading up to World
War II—and that’s where Putin’s army looks
headed next.
You can get a pretty clear view of the political
alliances of Ukraine with the above map, which
shows the results of the 2010 election. Blue
represents areas that supported Viktor
Yanukovych, so you can consider those regions
comparatively pro-Russian. The purple areas
voted for an opposing candidate, Yulia
Tymoshenko. The darker the color, the stronger
the support. Kharkiv and Donetsk are firmly in the
blue, and represent two major Ukrainian cities
with a strong industrial infrastructure—and both
are historically Russian.
This is a group of very assertive, very nationalistic
people at arms over the one issue that holds
paramount importance: heritage. And historically,
gray areas are reserved for the losers; it’s the
inflexible, dyed-in-the-wool believers in a cause
who triumph in a conflict. Russia sees this as
good news, picturing much support from the
country they’re invading. As one Ukrainian
bitterly put it, “No one asked us. We are like
puppets for them. We have one Tsar and one god
—Putin.”
8 Russia’s License For Aggression

Though the UN, NATO, and the US have all gone
on high alert, the Crimean invasion isn’t an act of
aggression against the whole world. It’s a move to
make parts of Ukraine decisively Russian, both
culturally and politically. Obama initially warned
that there would be “costs” to this invasion, but
he won’t back it up—he can’t, not without a
game of nuclear Russian roulette, which nobody
wants.
The problem isn’t that America and the UN will
start tossing bombs into Russia; the problem is
that Putin knows they won’t. This is a man who
once said that the fall of the Soviet Union was the
“greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th
century,” a viewpoint which harkens to the days
of Stalin’s Great Purge and Khrushchev’s missile
diplomacy with Cuba.
And Putin’s already on round two. In 2008, when
Putin was still Prime Minister, Russia and Georgia
entered a five-day conflict that culminated in
Russian bombs falling on the Georgian capital.
Humanitarian groups around the world cried out,
governments issued strict warnings for Russia to
fall back, and nobody lifted an actual finger to
stop it. At the end of it all, Russia calmly strolled
back home and declared that Georgia had been
“ sufficiently punished.” Each time this happens,
Russia becomes more assured that the warnings
of the rest of the world are just that—words,
empty and hollow.
The situation in Ukraine may not be a match
that’s going to ignite the fires of World War III,
but it’s a nod to a superpower that they have a
free license to do what they want. And if you give
a mouse a cookie . . .
7 The Senkaku Island Dispute

Russia’s not the only country setting the stage for
World War III. As is the case with most important
things, World War II didn’t suddenly flash into
existence; it edged its way into the world
consciousness one little bit at a time, like a slowly
rusting bicycle, until war was officially declared.
While it’s easy to put the conflict into the simplest
terms, a lot of factors combined to make up what
we now view as one war.
The years leading up to the war held a lot of
indicators that, in hindsight, revealed aggressive
countries testing the waters of what they could
get away with. Japan, Italy, and Germany were all
involved in minor conflicts that the League of
Nations couldn’t stop, such as Italy’s invasion of
Ethiopia in 1935 and Japan’s chemical-infused
invasion of China in 1937.
These days, China is reversing the balance by
threatening an invasion of its own. The territory in
question is a group of rocks known as the
Senkaku islands, which are located in the East
China Sea. The problem, of course, is that both
China and Japan feel that the islands belong to
them, and whoever controls the islands also
controls shipping lanes, fishing waters, and a
potential oil field.
6 A Third Sino-Japanese War In The Making
China hasn’t been the nicest neighbor recently.
In November 2013, China startled the world by
announcing a newly configured air defense zone
in the East China Sea—a zone that they and they
alone would control, to the point of shooting
down aircraft that wandered into it. But, in
addition to Japan, other regions originally had
claim to that airspace, including Taiwan and
South Korea.
Whether or not China was planning an invasion at
that point, the Senkaku islands fall inside their
“newly acquired” airspace, and now they’re
threatening to forcefully move Japan out of the
area. Tensions have been building in the Pacific
Rim for a while now, and if military action puts too
much pressure on the skeleton of their current
political disputes, bones could break.
And unlike the first two Sino-Japanese wars, this
conflict could involve other countries in the
region. South Korea quietly expanded their own
airspace in December 2013, pushing back into
territory that China had already claimed.
Combined with both China and Japan
aggressively rearming themselves in recent years,
this territorial dispute has the potential to
explode.
5 America Is Legally Bound To Protect South
Pacific Countries

A war only becomes a World War when the US
gets involved. Unlike their official policy of stern
warnings and disapproving looks in response to
Russia, the White House has publicly and
unwaveringly declared that it will back Japan
against any acts of aggression by China.
With about 50 percent of its Naval force stationed
in the Pacific, the US will also be in a position to
help the Philippines if China continues pressing to
the south. They’re yet another country that has
been affected by the airspace changes, and the
US is legally bound to protect the Philippines
based on the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.
This treaty doesn’t even require anything as
outright as a full-scale land invasion. The
Philippines owns disputed islands within China’s
new airspace in the South China Sea (much like
Japan claims to own the Senkaku islands). If
China makes a move on any of those, the US
Navy has to retaliate on their behalf, or they’ll
break the conditions of the treaty.
4 Unlikely Alliances

But beneath it all, what do China’s problems and
Russia’s problems have to do with each other?
Although they initially ended up on opposite sides
of the conflict, Germany and the USSR went into
World War II with a non-aggression pact, which
lasted two years until Hitler ripped it up and sent
Nazis onto Soviet ice.
With perhaps some similarities to that historic
pact, China and Ukraine signed a nuclear security
pact in December 2013. The conditions: China
won’t use any nuclear weapons against Ukraine,
and if Ukraine is ever attacked by a nuclear force
—or “ threatened by such aggression“—China will
provide Ukraine with security guarantees.
Why would China want to create such a pact with
a country 5,800 kilometers (3,600 mi) away? And
more importantly, with which government is
China going to honor the pact? The past two
months have seen a see-saw of political parties in
control of Ukraine, but it’s likely that China’s
involvement will be dependent on Yanukovych’s
politics, which are decidedly pro-Russian. He’s the
one who signed the pact. China says its
relationship with Russia is warmer than ever, with
China’s People Daily describing it as “one of the
most active power relationships [in the world].”
It’s been speculated that Russia is hoping to draw
a Western attack onto Ukraine, so that China’s
entry to back Ukraine will cement the alliance
between China and Russia. That idea reeks of
conspiracy theory. But with Russia’s recent
agreement to supply $270 billion in oil supplies to
China, and with the majority of Russia’s pipelines
running through Ukraine, China would want to
protect its own interests. Either way, the enemy
of an enemy is always a friend, and US-Russian
relations are on very shaky ground.
3 Iran Is Itching For War

While tension rises on the Eastern European front
and Southeast Asia is mired in an explosive
territorial dispute, rumors of war are also being
whispered in the Middle East—specifically, Iran.
But is Iran any real threat? Depending on the
spin, it’s easy to think so.
In January 2014, Iran dispatched a fleet of ships
toward US national waters. The Senate has
decided that unless military action is taken, Iran’s
nuclear development will continue unchecked.
And on February 12, 2014, Iran’s military chief
answered that claim by declaring the country’s
willingness to go toe-to-toe with American forces,
on land or at sea.
It sounds like a crisis in the making, but it’s not
as bad as it seems. Those “warships” were a rusty
frigate and a supply boat, the White House in no
way backs the Senate’s bill, and while Iranian
general Hassan Firouzabadi did threaten the US
and the “Zionist regime” (Israel), it’s worth
remembering that they’ve done so plenty of
times in the past.
Another point of contention is Iran’s military
force. Including paramilitaries, Iran states that
they have 13.6 million people who can pick up a
weapon at a moment’s notice. While that number
is probably exaggerated, it doesn’t matter much
anyway—World War III, if it happens, will be
mostly an aerial war dependent more on long-
range technologies than close-quarters combat.
And that, surprisingly, is an example of why not
to count Iran out of the picture. They have an air
force of 30,000 men with several hundred
aircraft, along with cruise missiles with a range of
2,000 kilometers (1,240 mi). That’s plenty of
range to hit US bases in the Gulf.
But most importantly, continued attention on
Iran, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries is
spreading the West’s foreign resources a little too
thin, especially now that Russia won’t be any help
in that region.
2 North Korea Is A Wild Card
North Korea tends to get relegated to the back
row in discussions on world powers. They’re
potentially dangerous, sure, but it’s a short-range
type of danger, similar to the way you can still
skip away from a mugger with a knife. But turn
your back for too long, and that mugger can
sneak up and give you some scars.
North Korea is still firing missiles in South Korea’s
direction for no good reason. The most recent
launch was March 2, 2014; they fired more the
week before that. With a range of about 500
kilometers (300 mi), the missiles won’t reach far
—just to, say, Japan. Or China. Or South Korea, or
Russia. And since they’re nestled right in the
center of three of the biggest threats to peace at
this time, they could—purposely or not—stir up
something bigger than themselves, like dropping
a starved weasel into a den of sleeping bears.
Most frightening of all, North Korea is building a
nuclear arsenal. It’s unlikely that they’ll ever lead
with a nuclear attack, but if there’s enough chaos
going on around them, it’s not impossible that
they’ll try to slip one into the mix.
1 A Global Recession

World War I and World War II were very different
from each other, but they had one striking
similarity. Prior to each war, economic recessions
hit several of the countries involved. World War II
famously brought most of the world’s economies
back from the Great Depression, and World War I
helped the US recover from a two-year recession
that had already slowed trade by 20 percent.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it’s worth
noting which economies recovered earlier than
others, which may have had a huge impact on
the way things turned out.
By 1933, Japan had taken moves to devalue its
currency, which led to increased exports and a
resulting growth in their economy. They pumped
the extra money into weapons and munitions,
which gave them a decided military advantage in
the years leading up to the war. Germany, on the
other hand, entirely crashed, which made the
Nazi and Communist parties take similar steps
and earn overwhelming support among the
populace.
We’re seeing some similarities today. While
analysts are predicting yet another economic
meltdown for Western countries, countries like
Iran and Russia are looking to band together to
boost their economies. Among other effects, that
could lead to a second unit on Iran’s nuclear
plant; Germany’s massive internal spending in
the 1930s pulled it out of the Depression faster
than America or the rest of Europe. And the
global recession hit Russia less than much of the
rest of the world, due in part to its exports of a
quarter of the natural gas used by the entire
European continent
And then there’s China. The US government is
close to $17 trillion in debt, and China owns
seven percent of that, or about $1.19 trillion.
China recently flew past Japan to become the
world’s second largest economy, and if it keeps
growing at this rate, its GDP is going to match
America’s in about eight years. The risk is if China
decides to dump the US debt. China would take a
financial loss, but it could be a crippling blow to
the US economy—and much of the world, since
the US dollar is held in reserve by most foreign
governments.
If China and the US do come to blows over the
South China Sea, the US could eradicate the debt
and pump the extra revenue into military
spending—the exact same monetary flow that
happened in World War II, only this time the guns
are bigger.
But don’t worry, it won’t happen. Probably
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Military Release Photos From The Battle In Konduga by elder05(m): 9:45pm On Sep 13, 2014
Nothing can be more reassuring than seeing the corpse of dead boko men
PhonesRe: How To Identify An Unknown Caller! by elder05(m): 12:04pm On Dec 22, 2013
aariwa: after 5 mins of ringing press *#30# and send immediately.the number will show on your screen.
PhonesRe: How To Identify An Unknown Caller! by elder05(m): 11:54am On Dec 22, 2013
aariwa: after 5 mins of ringing press *#30# and send immediately.the number will show on your screen.
serious??
GamingRe: The First Game You Played? by elder05(m): 2:45pm On Sep 14, 2013
Started wit 8 bites marco-genius in 96 then moved to 16 bites sega mega drive. Can still remember some moves in mortal kombat. XAXBCZCZAAXX liu kan's brutality
RomanceRe: Fake Hymen For Sale In Abuja From N9,000 to N15,000 by elder05(m): 4:31pm On Sep 10, 2013
dagbokoncept: Only learners will succumb to such foolish trick. A man with experience knows what virginity is and moreover the kind of rigorous pains virgin passes through during early period of sexual intercourse. There's no how a woman that has engaged in sexual intercourse uncountable number of times will pretend perfectly as a virgin. I trust badoo like me.
ma guy na lie o, these ladies can fake everything orgasm, painful intercourse you name it they'll fake it.
RomanceRe: Fake Hymen For Sale In Abuja From N9,000 to N15,000 by elder05(m): 4:25pm On Sep 10, 2013
Its not new, girls have been using alum for a long time now. All u need do is wash the punny with alum and its as good as new.
FamilyRe: After Getting Married, What Did You Stop Doing? by elder05(m): 8:58am On Sep 04, 2013
I will miss hanging out with the guys late at night. Chai! This lady wants me all to herself.
CelebritiesRe: Omawumi Allegedly Beat-up A Photo-Journalist At A Lagos Event? by elder05(m): 6:36am On Jul 31, 2013
But that journalist no dey shame? E allow woman beat am like that, still come 4 public dey talk

am.....TUFIAKWA!!!!!!
PoliticsRe: Our Position On ‘child Marriage’ – Islamic Organisation by elder05(m): 11:42pm On Jul 25, 2013
Me am not bothered o. So long as its their own Muslim daughters they're marrying I say carry on.
PoliticsRe: Fasehun Wont Forgive Al-Mustapha Were Kudirat His Wife – Gani Adams by elder05(m): 7:51pm On Jul 20, 2013
ARES: I keep hearing struggle this, struggle that.... What exactly are they struggling for
yes o! My brother help me ask them
CultureRe: Crazy But True Facts About Culture by elder05(m): 11:30pm On Jul 15, 2013
The people of Orlu in Imo state don't kill pythons. Like they find them sacred or something. We find a lot of pythons here.
FoodRe: Kinds Of Concoction Food You Ate Or Cooked In School? by elder05(m): 7:18pm On Jul 13, 2013
Indomie and bread, try it and Its bye bye to hunger 4 that day.
Nairaland GeneralRe: Made In Nigeria, English by elder05(m): 7:25pm On Jul 08, 2013
Warn yourself o! Before I vex. And if I vex, I go sound u!
PoliticsRe: Risk Of Hurricane Affecting Lagos In A Few Weeks? by elder05(m): 11:30am On Jul 08, 2013
Afam4eva: Some people are busy arguing instead of preparing for the worse. As i'm typing this now, i'm on my way to Cotonou. But wait oo, Cotonou has a large body of water too, right? ***Turns back and heads to Maiduguri***
hurricane or boko haram....... Chose wisely
TV/MoviesRe: Beverly Osu & Angelo Kissing On Big Brother Africa by elder05(m): 9:29pm On Jul 07, 2013
mechummy: Ewwww....I won't be caught dead kissing that! Gross!
. You sure??
Christianity EtcRe: Deliverance From Four Demonic Kingdoms! by elder05(m): 1:01pm On Jul 07, 2013
Blackberry kingdomhuh If I hear
EducationRe: Reps Fault Cut-off Marks Of Unity Schools. by elder05(m): 7:25am On Jun 29, 2013
The federal govt might feel this quota system helps the northerners but it doesn't. I attended a unity sch and by the time we got to SS3 majority of the northern students had dropped out. My advice is to increase their cut off marks, at least this will give their primary sch teachers more challenge.
Science/TechnologyRe: Creatures That Live Longer Than Humans by elder05(m): 6:36pm On Jun 22, 2013
That geoduck looks familiar

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