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I have finally shared my terrible experience working as a Doctor in Nigeria. I wish I had a better experience but such is life. I hope medical students after me experience better. I hope to be a better senior too.

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That SR wey tell you that work-life crap is trying to impose his/her failure on you.

Toxicity plenty for this practice. Sadly, I've also seen this in some of the young docs that have climbed up a step or two....feels like they suddenly forget what's like being a junior doc.

I'm glad you pulled through, I pray this doesn't leave any mental scar on ya. Importantly, j pray you become a better chief to your juniors.

Last week, I was on call on Tuesday. Here, call runs from 8am to 8am. So, 8am on Wednesday, my call was done....and boy oh boy, that call was maaaad. Reasonable people will naturally go enjoy some healthy rest (off) after working for 24 hours straight...but legend has it that medical elders are hardly reasonable, so they create impossible schedules for their people.

So, Wednesday, na our theatre day.... usually busy. I remained at work until it was almost 9pm!

Thursday and Friday were fuuuuullll days...guess what? I was back on call on Saturday! Weekend call: Saturday, 8am to Monday, 8am. Another crazy call...was even administering chemotherapy alongside.

Monday 8am, after the hectic call, we went to rest....hahahaha..scratch that! We proceeded to the clinic...another full day...and Tuesday, back to another 24-hour call... apparently my unit is on call every Tuesday.

I'm still recovering from this crazy schedule.

Our practice is a risk factor of many of the diseases we are trying to treat: depression, major anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, hypertension, diabetes, all sorts of infectious conditions, stroke, UTI, haemorrhoids, chronic waist pain, peripheral vascular diseases, PUD, obesity, kidney diseases, erectile dysfunction, malignancies...the list is endless...and if anyone engages me, I can prove how our work can cause the above diseases and more!

So, chief, I understand what you went through.

Ca va aller.

TONYE001:
That SR wey tell you that work-life crap is trying to impose his/her failure on you.

Toxicity plenty for this practice. Sadly, I've also seen this in some of the young docs that have climbed up a step or two....feels like they suddenly forget what's like being a junior doc.

I'm glad you pulled through, I pray this doesn't leave any mental scar on ya. Importantly, j pray you become a better chief to your juniors.

Last week, I was on call on Tuesday. Here, call runs from 8am to 8am. So, 8am on Wednesday, my call was done....and boy oh boy, that call was maaaad. Reasonable people will naturally go enjoy some healthy rest (off) after working for 24 hours straight...but legend has it that medical elders are hardly reasonable, so they create impossible schedules for their people.

So, Wednesday, na our theatre day.... usually busy. I remained at work until it was almost 9pm!

Thursday and Friday were fuuuuullll days...guess what? I was back on call on Saturday! Weekend call: Saturday, 8am to Monday, 8am. Another crazy call...was even administering chemotherapy alongside.

Monday 8am, after the hectic call, we went to rest....hahahaha..scratch that! We proceeded to the clinic...another full day...and Tuesday, back to another 24-hour call... apparently my unit is on call every Tuesday.

I'm still recovering from this crazy schedule.

Our practice is a risk factor of many of the diseases we are trying to treat: depression, major anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, hypertension, diabetes, all sorts of infectious conditions, stroke, UTI, haemorrhoids, chronic waist pain, peripheral vascular diseases, PUD, obesity, kidney diseases, erectile dysfunction, malignancies...the list is endless...and if anyone engages me, I can prove how our work can cause the above diseases and more!

So, chief, I understand what you went through.

Ca va aller.

This is a lot to handle. So when do you actually get to rest?

TONYE001:
That SR wey tell you that work-life crap is trying to impose his/her failure on you.

Toxicity plenty for this practice. Sadly, I've also seen this in some of the young docs that have climbed up a step or two....feels like they suddenly forget what's like being a junior doc.

I'm glad you pulled through, I pray this doesn't leave any mental scar on ya. Importantly, j pray you become a better chief to your juniors.

Last week, I was on call on Tuesday. Here, call runs from 8am to 8am. So, 8am on Wednesday, my call was done....and boy oh boy, that call was maaaad. Reasonable people will naturally go enjoy some healthy rest (off) after working for 24 hours straight...but legend has it that medical elders are hardly reasonable, so they create impossible schedules for their people.

So, Wednesday, na our theatre day.... usually busy. I remained at work until it was almost 9pm!

Thursday and Friday were fuuuuullll days...guess what? I was back on call on Saturday! Weekend call: Saturday, 8am to Monday, 8am. Another crazy call...was even administering chemotherapy alongside.

Monday 8am, after the hectic call, we went to rest....hahahaha..scratch that! We proceeded to the clinic...another full day...and Tuesday, back to another 24-hour call... apparently my unit is on call every Tuesday.

I'm still recovering from this crazy schedule.

Our practice is a risk factor of many of the diseases we are trying to treat: depression, major anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, hypertension, diabetes, all sorts of infectious conditions, stroke, UTI, haemorrhoids, chronic waist pain, peripheral vascular diseases, PUD, obesity, kidney diseases, erectile dysfunction, malignancies...the list is endless...and if anyone engages me, I can prove how our work can cause the above diseases and more!

So, chief, I understand what you went through.

Ca va aller.

You've abandoned your diary.

A fan.

The only way you can enjoy as a medical doctor in Nigeria is for you to become a consultant.

TONYE001:
That SR wey tell you that work-life crap is trying to impose his/her failure on you.

Toxicity plenty for this practice. Sadly, I've also seen this in some of the young docs that have climbed up a step or two....feels like they suddenly forget what's like being a junior doc.

I'm glad you pulled through, I pray this doesn't leave any mental scar on ya. Importantly, j pray you become a better chief to your juniors.

Last week, I was on call on Tuesday. Here, call runs from 8am to 8am. So, 8am on Wednesday, my call was done....and boy oh boy, that call was maaaad. Reasonable people will naturally go enjoy some healthy rest (off) after working for 24 hours straight...but legend has it that medical elders are hardly reasonable, so they create impossible schedules for their people.

So, Wednesday, na our theatre day.... usually busy. I remained at work until it was almost 9pm!

Thursday and Friday were fuuuuullll days...guess what? I was back on call on Saturday! Weekend call: Saturday, 8am to Monday, 8am. Another crazy call...was even administering chemotherapy alongside.

Monday 8am, after the hectic call, we went to rest....hahahaha..scratch that! We proceeded to the clinic...another full day...and Tuesday, back to another 24-hour call... apparently my unit is on call every Tuesday.

I'm still recovering from this crazy schedule.

Our practice is a risk factor of many of the diseases we are trying to treat: depression, major anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, hypertension, diabetes, all sorts of infectious conditions, stroke, UTI, haemorrhoids, chronic waist pain, peripheral vascular diseases, PUD, obesity, kidney diseases, erectile dysfunction, malignancies...the list is endless...and if anyone engages me, I can prove how our work can cause the above diseases and more!

So, chief, I understand what you went through.

Ca va aller.

The Lord is your strength 💪

But you got the money. Senior consultants get paid N1.2m monthly by federal government and you even do private practice paying you another largesse. Other professionals at their peak cannot earn 500k monthly from federal government. So it's give and take

You also enjoyed a well massaged ego with babes rocking you left right and center while shouting dockay dockay. Look at the brighter side as well

People do think being a Doctor sounds so amazing, but little did they know.


Worst hit in this situation are spouses of medical Doctors, especially men married to Medical doctors, they deserve a national honor in Nigeria because that journey is not for the weak and faint hearted.


Just in case you are a young man planning to marry a medical doctor, better prepare your mind, and make sure you are financially capable to hire helps for the house and be prepared to take care of the kids most of the time

Odotech:
But you got the money. Senior consultants get paid N1.2m monthly by federal government and you even do private practice paying you another largesse. Other professionals at their peak cannot earn 500k monthly from federal government. So it's give and take

That is a lie.

Doctors are poorly paid in Nigeria if we are to be honest.


A Senior Mechanical or Production Engineer working with Nigerian Breweries, Nestle, NBC (Coca Cola), Guinness, Sabmiller, not to talk of those working with Intl Oil companies (e.g. Chevron, Shell, Mobil, Agip, etc), NNPC, NGC, NDD, NIMASA, NCC, DPR, etc earn nothing less than 2million.


And a Medical Consultant spends more years and resources to qualify as a consultant compared to what an Engineer or Accountant or HR Managers spend to become seniors in their fields.



A medical consultant supposed not to earn anything less than 4million if Nigeria was a serious country with working system in place.


Medical Officers or House Officers should earn from 500k above.


Doctors and Nurses are poorly remunerated in Nigeria.


Mind you, I am a trained Engineer, but truth must be told.

franchasofficia:
That is a lie.

Doctors are poorly paid in Nigeria if we are to be honest.


A Senior Mechanical or Production Engineer working with Nigerian Breweries, Nestle, NBC (Coca Cola), Guinness, Sabmiller, not to talk of those working with Intl Oil companies (e.g. Chevron, Shell, Mobil, Agip, etc), NNPC, NGC, NDD, NIMASA, NCC, DPR, etc earn nothing less than 2million.


And a Medical Consultant spends more years and resources to qualify as a consultant compared to what an Engineer or Accountant or HR Managers spend to become seniors in their fields.



A medical consultant supposed not to earn anything less than 4million if Nigeria was a serious country with working system in place.


Medical Officers or House Officers should earn from 500k above.


Doctors and Nurses are poorly remunerated in Nigeria.


Mind you, I am a trained Engineer, but truth must be told.

I work in a federal hospital, I have seen payslips. A starting resident doctor earns already above 400k as we speak. Very Senior consultants earn 1.2m monthly. You are an engineer working outside the federal hospital setting and you are arguing foolishly with such audacity about something you don't know about. Health workers are poorly paid but not the medical doctors. Go look for their payslip before you come here to argue foolishly.

Anybody in oil industry earns well. Consultants in mobil earn above the N2m to N3m you are talking about. Other sectors are not monopolized against doctors the way doctors monopolize hospital against other health professionals. A nurse at her peak earns less than 400k which is the starting point of a resident medical doctor. Get your facts right. Yet, Nurses don't complain the way doctors complain about poor wages

As someone that was raised his whole life with the phrase "You must be become a doctor like your father". I'm truly questioning if medicine is for me.
I'm in 300 level currently and bagged 2 resits that am to prepare for in 2 months.

I would be a liar if I told you, I'm not considering dropping out. I spend at worst 5 hours a day studying and I feel like have wasted the whole day if I don't spend 8-10 hours. It's not easy honestly and now am reading someone saying they were on call from morning till night.

As am typing this, I'm currently in the libary and won't be leaving here till 6pm. It's not an enjoyable life at all.

If nigeria were a country of opportunities, Nothing would make me do medicine.

We all suffered same fate and are still suffering. Most of us now have post traumatic stress disorder.
While working in Nigerian hospitals I felt completely suicidal. Residency training can't be more heinous than the real Hell.
So much Toxicity within the hospital community, same obtainable across the entire Nigeria. Everyone is just mad😭
Despite leaving Nigeria for years for the United States, it still obvious my umbilical cord is attached to that experience.
It's very difficult letting go.
Having tasted life outside & how sane humans should behave, I vowed never to father any child in Nigeria for that will be a crime to that child & against humanity. Not in this life or life after.
Nigeria did more harm than good to my psyche and quality of life.
Just imagine the traumatized millions of Nigerians out there.😭😭😭😭

edogu:
The only way you can enjoy as a medical doctor in Nigeria is for you to become a consultant.

Who told you so?
By then you would be treating
Depression
Cluster A or B personality disorders.
Diabetes
Hypertension
Erectile dysfunction for men
Menstrual Irregularities
Bipolar disorder.
Arrhythmias.
Stroke like syndromes.
Angina..
Coupled with the Insecurities and madness across Nigeria.

I rather become a Nurse in the United States than become The CMD of National Hospital Abuja.

Check the quality of life of WIKE despite being in Government all these years compare it to an Average Helicopter Nurse in the United States.

Wike won't even come close to the flight Nurse in behavioral conduct and quality of life. U Guys think having access to so much money is everything. You don't know peace of mind/sanity is ultimate.

Pastorjohn2:
As someone that was raised his whole life with the phrase "You must be become a doctor like your father". I'm truly questioning if medicine is for me.
I'm in 300 level currently and bagged 2 resits that am to prepare for in 2 months.

I would be a liar if I told you, I'm not considering dropping out. I spend at worst 5 hours a day studying and I feel like have wasted the whole day if I don't spend 8-10 hours. It's not easy honestly and now am reading someone saying they were on call from morning till night.

As am typing this, I'm currently in the libary and won't be leaving here till 6pm. It's not an enjoyable life at all.

If nigeria were a country of opportunities, Nothing would make me do medicine.

You're honestly on the right track! Do not be swayed by all these talk of a crazy work schedule, the moment you start, you'll adapt. Besides, as you grow in the profession, your schedule will become better. It's the same "scare talk" people hear whenever they want to engage in any venture. "School is hard" "Adulthood is tough" "marriage is hard" "raising children is no joke" "life abroad is tough"

In Nigeria, doctors may not be extremely rich, but they live a decent life and can afford basic things unlike the practioners of several other fields. Some people have Master degrees in this country and they are still unemployed. Don't throw away your future o!

Outside Nigeria, the job prospect for medical doctors is quite lucrative unlike the myriads of others that have to resort to doing odd & menial jobs. Do not be deceived by the allure of a "restful life". Suffer now and reap the reward tomorrow.

#My_2cents.

Odotech:
I work in a federal hospital, I have seen payslips. A starting resident doctor earns already above 400k as we speak. Very Senior consultants earn 1.2m monthly. You are an engineer working outside the federal hospital setting and you are arguing foolishly with such audacity about something you don't know about. Health workers are poorly paid but not the medical doctors. Go look for their payslip before you come here to argue foolishly.

Anybody in oil industry earns well. Consultants in mobil earn above the N2m to N3m you are talking about. Other sectors are not monopolized against doctors the way doctors monopolize hospital against other health professionals. A nurse at her peak earns less than 400k which is the starting point of a resident medical doctor. Get your facts right. Yet, Nurses don't complain the way doctors complain about poor wages

No pls, starting resident Doctors don't earn above 400,000.

Many consultants earn around 700-800k except Consultants that also work as Lecturers and get paid for both.

Senior registrars earn 440-470, so pls how can a new Resident earn above 400?

Except you are in the North where the pay may be higher.

Pls check those payslips well and be sure.

Private practice sef pays Medical doctors 250-350.

That's why many people are no longer interested in Residency and would rather japa.

Pastorjohn2:
As someone that was raised his whole life with the phrase "You must be become a doctor like your father". I'm truly questioning if medicine is for me.
I'm in 300 level currently and bagged 2 resits that am to prepare for in 2 months.

I would be a liar if I told you, I'm not considering dropping out. I spend at worst 5 hours a day studying and I feel like have wasted the whole day if I don't spend 8-10 hours. It's not easy honestly and now am reading someone saying they were on call from morning till night.

As am typing this, I'm currently in the libary and won't be leaving here till 6pm. It's not an enjoyable life at all.

If nigeria were a country of opportunities, Nothing would make me do medicine.

Pastorjohn2 are you sure?

https://www.nairaland.com/8002954/unpopular-opinion-only-lazy-youths

Phoenixandfire:
No pls, starting resident Doctors don't earn above 400,000.
Many consultants earn around 700-800k except Consultants that also work as Lecturers and get paid for both.
Senior registrars earn 440-470, so pls how can a new Resident earn above 400?
Except you are in the North where the pay may be higher.

Pls check those payslips well and be sure.
Private practice sef pays Medical doctors 250-350.
That's why many people are no longer interested in Residency and would rather japa.

You are Correct 💯

allen113:
Pastorjohn2 are you sure?

https://www.nairaland.com/8002954/unpopular-opinion-only-lazy-youths

Haha , I use this account to troll a lot out of boredom. Surely that should be obvious

The average Nigerian public servant is poorly paid. But doctors are the best paid. There's no profession I know in the civil service that start their career at level 12 except the medical professionals. Graduate engineers start at Level 9. Some argue that other professionals in lucrative government or private organisations earn better. But doctors in such organisations are also paid well. No one discriminates against them.

Odotech:
I work in a federal hospital, I have seen payslips. A starting resident doctor earns already above 400k as we speak. Very Senior consultants earn 1.2m monthly. You are an engineer working outside the federal hospital setting and you are arguing foolishly with such audacity about something you don't know about. Health workers are poorly paid but not the medical doctors. Go look for their payslip before you come here to argue foolishly.

Anybody in oil industry earns well. Consultants in mobil earn above the N2m to N3m you are talking about. Other sectors are not monopolized against doctors the way doctors monopolize hospital against other health professionals. A nurse at her peak earns less than 400k which is the starting point of a resident medical doctor. Get your facts right. Yet, Nurses don't complain the way doctors complain about poor wages

How much will now be the salary with the new minimum wage on ground currently. God bless u