₦airaland Forum

Love800:
A pharmacist is not a doctor?

Pls, can you define a doctor for me?

Kewekubosineh:
My friend, this is cheap lies. Nothing like fridge benefits in American lexicon. It's fringe benefits.

Stop lying please.

Racoon:
Is this really true! Medical doctors make una help confirm. Meanwhile, a common LGA counsellor is earning more than an average doctor. Even agbero like MC Oluomo is a big boy comparable to doctors. What a crude nation.

Tolu2024:
Ungrateful people
Don’t think if everyone run to USA, Canada or uk the pay will remain the same?
The citizens of those countries are going to other countries that pay better because blacks are ruining their job.

Dalohad:
Residents are students in the logical sense. They still undergoing training to become consultants.
That training is being paid for by the government..

Jman06:
No resident doctor earns less than 400k in a public hospital in Nigeria as at today. Maybe the 316k excludes call duty allowance

KingAzubuike:
Nigerian doctors can be very proud . Carrying shoulder up and down with their 2003 corolla.

uvie66:
..... you expect a young person starting out to rush and buy a house, car, and carry family on top of his head. Why can't he rent for a while and use public transportation since he is still young.

shortgun:
Doctors are overpaid if you ask me.
There's no logical explanation why Doctors should earn more than Engineers. After all, seeing a doctor doesn't guarantee one will survive an illness or die.

DrAda:
The brain drain has led to doctors literally putting their lives and families in the line with zero support system

uvie66:
.....I personally think the Doctors are just plain greedy, in a country where the minimum wage is 70k, you are started on 350-400k a month during training, I think it is reasonable. 300k a month equates to 3.6m a year. As a young you can get a reasonable apartment for 1 to 1.5 million and still have about 2m to play with.

DrFunmisticGlow:
True.

As a young doctor, one major thing that will shackle you to practice in this country is marriage in nigeria. So many would choose to rather not marry, marry someone with definite jakpa plans, or jakpa and wait to marry

bsideangel:
I respectfully disagree. Referring to resident doctors as "students" undermines their significant contributions to the medical field. A more accurate description would be "doctors in training." They are essential to the healthcare system, as they carry out a substantial amount of the work, and thus they deserve fair compensation. Think of it like a graduate trainee at a company—those positions are compensated too.

Have you considered the implications of having underpaid doctors? Do you truly value your life and the lives of your loved ones?

Imagine facing a medical emergency and finding that the on-call doctor is unavailable because they're busy pursuing a side hustle to make ends meet. It's a risky proposition to sacrifice the livelihoods of our healthcare professionals for the sake of saving government funds. Current day Nigeria you'd need at least 1.5M as pay for our doctors. Even Ghana pay their list doctor $800 currently and Nigeria is still struggling with $250 dollars a month for a doctor? You might not fully grasp the consequences until you find yourself in need of urgent care.

The same government you wish to save money for have access to private jets for healthcare abroad when they encounter the slightest issue, where they can see well-paid doctors.

BABANGBALI:
see as you dey para because of my English? Na wa o. Professor Wole Soyinka abeg no kill yourself because of my English o

Jman06:
No resident doctor earns less than 400k in a public hospital in Nigeria as at today. Maybe the 316k excludes call duty allowance

Dalohad:
I am in the healthcare system and know how it works and even the politics involved.

Doctors-in-training are still students. It does not water down their contribution.
Nigeria Physicians have always had a side hustle, one of the side hustle is playing politics with the salaries and emolument of other non-physician medical and health professionals, which never happens anywhere in the saner climes.

If your Resident physicians have enough time on your hands to tell the government how much to pay Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical Scientists, Physio et. al. How busy do you want us to believe you are?

EeyanMayweather:
Olodo
Are you a resident Doctor ?
Who told you no Doctor earn less than 400k in Government Hospital

No Junior registrar earn up to 400k and no senior registrar earn up to 500k in Government hospital.
The pay is even lesser in the few private hospitals with facilities for residency .

Oga Jman06, say what you know .
And yes, I’m a resident Doctor in a federal government hospital in Nigeria.

bsideangel:
What you have said are not based on facts rather these are words of jealousy wrongly directed at doctors because of hospital politics. Doctors do not determine the salaries and emolument of other health professionals. If you are so sure about that please present verifiable proof on that.
How can you be working less hours and you still want to earn as much as someone who is working almost 4 times the hours you are putting in and also more skilled than you?
Is that not witchcraft?

emapeteum:
I rest my case

iamL:
The guy is correct. Not all doctors are physicians even Our waec students know this one. See who wants to rubbish other Nigerians because you dey audio France. Olodo nor be by country.

franchasng:
a House Officer is a newly graduated doctor practising under supervision in hospital in the first year after graduation.


Resident Doctor is a medical doctor that is working in a hospital while continuing his medical training in a specialized medical field like oncology (cancer), cardio, etc. So he works at a hospital rendering medical services while undergoing academic training in a specific field.


Consultant Doctor is a Registered Senior Physician or Doctor in a specialized field of medicine, doctors and nurses call on him in difficult and complex cases for more expert diagnosis and mayb surgery.

bsideangel:
Sounds good for arguments until you have an emergency and there's no doctor around to attend to you.

theredaddy:
And whats wrong with living in 45 BC, even without technology nd fast cars human lived longer years stronger and healthier

Today with all the comfort n tech how old una dey die , its like the more we advance the shorter the life expectancy

You didnt thinks things through before you reply nii ...

hafeeanubasy:
Pharmacists are Pharmacists
Medical doctors are medical doctors

Be proud of who you are!

Medical doctors are not Pharmacists
Pharmacists are not medical doctors

emapeteum:
I see you lack the ability to comprehend and are only influenced by what you see in your society. I am not a WAEC student, please. I am a man who is currently engaging in one of the most difficult research projects in quantum mechanics. Please, stay off. I could teach your lecturer, please. Stay in your ignorance and be happy that you are knowledgeable. I rest my case because it is a waste of time to educate a man whose mind believes in error.