Leopantro:


Do you know of the shortfalls of both the original and the modern hippocratic Oath? Much as you are fixated on it, certain portions of it cannot stand in a court of law.
Not this



Kindly refer to this article
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/journal-of-health-sciences/issues-2/vol-6-no-2-july-2012/the-fall-of-the-hippocratic-oath-why-the-hippocratic-oath-should-be-discarded-in-favor-of-a-modified-version-of-pellegrino’s-precepts/

allycat:
The hippocratic oath people keep referring too says "the health of MY patient will be my first consideration" emphasis being My. This does not make me responsible for anyone who is rushed into my clinic or hospital.You do not become my patient till I agree to manage your case. So using that to blackmail doctors is a no case submission. If that were the case why don't you put your sick relations on a plane and fly abroad and tell the doctors there to treat you free after all they swore to the same hipocrattic oath.

datigbogirl:


Your statement here has no correlation to your suggestion...ds doctors are not resigning dr profession but will move to a place with better working condition...it's like d prayer of every doctor but you're here saying the doctor should down tools kpatakpata and become jobless simply becos he demands to be paid for the skills he uses in rendering life saving services...

Humans will always take important things for granted.

Karlovich:
and your brain made u write such nonsense, u better see a psychiatrist before your relatives start blaming innocent people in your village for ur predicament, and I'm no nigerian

Karlovich:
smh, you really need serious mental evaluation, no wonder your politicians flee to foreign countries for medical treatments. So a doctor shouldn't be paid for his services, the drugs and other apparatus he made use of while treating a patient, and some are quick to mention God u begin to wonder why the so called patient wasn't taken to a church or mosque in the first place.

InvertedHammer:

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The junior doctors are threatening a government that cares to listen. Doctors in Nigeria can threaten to move to Bermuda triangle and the government couldn't care less. Like I always say, most Nigerians are directly or Indirectly benefiting from the messed up situation called Nigeria. They will resist any transformation that may bring positive results in their lives collectively.

Rejoice5000:
My mum almost push me to that profession but i boldly told her i cant survive as a medical doctor period::because after free treatment i will also ask the patient if he or she has a transport fair:

samdes02:
you're just being impractical really. Well gear up for the next wave of braindrain and it hurts me dearly cos it'll only worsen things.and hey next time you go see your GP tell him he swore an oath to always treat you free of charge .Lets face the country is messed up and the government just don't care

samdes02:
no I won't, but would you excuse all the women who would hinge on the said oath of celibacy andswear to lure the Padre into shagging them?

creativity4real:
better comment in english or it'll soon be your turn!

samdes02:
jeez! Now I just got angrier , seriously?

sofadj:
I own a hospital in Southwest- (not Osun state Nigeria ...lol). I currently have about 17 patients on my ward each of whom I have admitted at several occasions through emergency. None of these patients has paid upto 30% of his/her bill. Some of them have stayed upto 7 weeks on the ward. I admitted and attended to them based on the fact that their conditions were life-threatening as at the time they came. I made their bill known to them - and they signed before they were treated. But there is a common trend, as soon as they felt relief and became stable they pleaded for their bills to be reduced - this I vehemently refused.

About 4 weeks ago a woman was rushed in with Eclampsia having just convulsed while pregnant and she was unconscious. I promptly took her straight to the theatre without collecting a dime though i had informed the relatives of the charges - #120,000 for her operation and medications. They signed and I carried out the surgery succesfully. Mother and baby survived. Within the following 6-days they paid a total sum of #12,000 and they began pleading to go home for the child's christening ceremony. I looked at them with disdain. Till now, they have only managed to pay a total sum of #14,000.

Another man who was managed for strangulated hernia has only paid 20,000 out of 75,000 bill. And the list goes on. Their failure to pay has made it difficult for the hospital to replace consumables and medications needed to manage other people's condition.
In the early hours of today 1:30am, a woman was rushed into the hospital following delivery at the referrral center. Blood had refused to stop gushing out. I did a quick assesment and realised she would need more materials than the hospital pharmacy currently had in store. I could have my staff get from a nearby pharmacy too. However, the husband said he had no money on him and so did the numerous relatives that accompanied. It was indeed a familiar pattern. I decided to let them go. I referred her to a government hospital. Ofcourse they pleaded for me to help but there was nothing I could do. Few minutes after they left - just few metres from my hospital gate, she collapsed. She had lost a lot of blood. I rushed there and rigorously tried resuscitating her right there outside the hospital 2am early morning, but all efforts proved abortive. A young woman of 28years had just died after having her first baby. Screams, wails, cries ensued. I felt bad - this is not why i became a doctor. But her blood is not on my hands.

Her blood is on the hands and heads of all the patients on the ward who can afford to pay but refused to - on the grounds that - "What will they do?. Her blood is on the hands and heads of the government officials past and present who have made it difficult and impossible for workers to get paid for their work. But the government officials are not the target of this my narrat. It is aimed at those who take hospital healthcare and medical doctors for granted. Those (including myself) who emphasise that doctors should not put money first before treating emergency conditions. In emergency cases, relatives would go to any length through any struggle to get money. As soon as the situation becomes calm, they relax and then they refuse to pay.

Last year a distant relative of mine was delivered of her baby via Caesearian section (in a hospital in Lagos- not mine). They were billed #180,000 which they accepted before the operation. After the surgery, her husband called me and asked how much I charge and i told him. He then began pleading with the management of the said hospital to review his bill. They declined. The husband being who he is, paid #120,000 and absconded with his wife and his newly born son. How he did this, I do not know, but i know that at the christening ceremony a week later, he had two cows slaughtered to celebrate the birth of his first son.

Many times we complain of doctors who ask for charges before treating patients but no one has ever bothered to ask the doctors why they do? Doctors are humans too, we need to pay bills. This is our trade, our profession, our means of livelihood. We have needs too. We can not go to the market place with the ID showing that we're doctors and hope to get food items on credit. We need to pay our children's school fees, we need clothes , shelter etc just as you. Everywhere in the world healthcare is expensive, both services and materials are exepensive. Well we understand that you may not have money. The government should find a way. The government should find a way/policy that ensures that we get our money back after we have rendered our service. In the UK there is the National Health Scheme, in the United states they have health insurance schemes too in addition to Medicare, Medicaid. In Nigeria we have the barely effective, poorly regulated and massively corrupt National Health Insurance Scheme.

Well i have decided to change the modus operandi of my institution. The previous one has not benefitted anybody. Henceforth if any one comes to my emergency room without a dime. I will not attend to. If such a person dies, the blood is not on my hands, its on the hands of those who have received treatment in the past and failed to pay afterwards.

Seylad2009:
Translation,Please.

iPopAlomo:



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Hope you understand now... Life is not that serious abeg... and you're in the UK... try going out a bit... have fun abeg...

I'm a lover not a fighter...

iPopAlomo:
I'll hit that...

Kay17:


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