₦airaland Forum

Mindlog:
What stopped you from qualifying as one, to show other doctors, how to be humane?

dont mind him, very anyhow comment, I bet he applied for medicine but was denied admission

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

They are selfish for blaming government for all leadership lapses... But, you are not selfish for defending the government in everything too?!!

The very same government many of you attacked all the time when Pdp and GEJ were in charge have suddenly become above blame.


You will all be alright las las...!

Bylaw:
Do you mean 12hrs straight or 72 hours straight?
I don't understand.

Is there anywhere in Nigeria you will be asked to continue working from day one 12hrs then continue 12hrs night then thr cycle continues till 72hrs?
You no baf? Freshen up etc?

Yes, it's 72 hours straight. I have personally done it several times. If you have to make time to sneak out and clean yourself, but really, no one cares. Officially, you are on the clock and responsible for all the lives and cases brought in.

Bylaw:
Do you mean 12hrs straight or 72 hours straight?
I don't understand.

Is there anywhere in Nigeria you will be asked to continue working from day one 12hrs then continue 12hrs night then thr cycle continues till 72hrs?
You no baf? Freshen up etc?

Av worked 4 days straight before.

I know doctors who have worked 2 weeks straight. No going home

creolehunt:
Well, tens of thousands of doctors are inducted yearly too. Trust me, the number of migrating doctors is very negligible compared to the numbers produced.

That said, it's not easy to also migrate. The process is very tedious and cumbersome.

So, we should relax with this talk of brain drain. There are still many doctors unemployed and underemployed littered around.

How many of your graduated doctors are practicing? If they don't japa, they go into tech or business. I see the job boards everyday. There are still several unfilled vacancies.

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

Somebody is not making sense here.


You have probably waited for doctor in a clinic before and he arrived by 10am to 11am.
What most people don't know is that,Doctors works do more than seeing you in the clinic.
They do ward rounds which you can not even tell how long it will last,Morning accademic meetings which include CME and Morbidity and mortality meetings,procedures which could be planned or unplanned.Sometimes they do these things in the morning before they show up at your bed or at the clinic while you are waiting.
Also,when you see them living the clinic by 1pm,Not as if they are going home all the time,they continue with some of these activities.

blowjohn:
Av worked 4 days straight before.

I know doctors who have worked 2 weeks straight. No going home

Please is it like working like today from today 6am to 6pm the from 6pm to 12am =24hrs

Then 6am to 6pm=36days

Or is it 6am to 6pm u go home then return 6am to 6pm

airsaylongcome:
My cousin. Just died like that. Terribly sad. Sad sad sad

So sorry. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

Emary:
Yes, it's 72 hours straight. I have personally done it several times. If you have to make time to sneak out and clean yourself, but really, no one cares. Officially, you are on the clock and responsible for all the lives and cases brought in.

How can you work 72hrs straight no sleep?

U dont understand what i mean. Like go to work 6am to 6pm today and then continue 6pm today to 6am the next day?

Bylaw:
How can you work 72hrs straight no sleep?

U dont understand what i mean. Like go to work 6am to 6pm today and then continue 6pm today to 6am the next day?

Yes, that is the job. The most you can do is doze. If patients come, you get up. The first call I did, I dozed for only about 15 minutes on the 3rd day. It was an extremely busy shift. That is generally the nature of medical work. You can't sleep properly while on duty, and whatever you meet on shift, you handle it as it comes. In a teaching hospital, there are usually no slow periods. It is the last bus-stop for the worst cases, so no breaks. Even eating meals is difficult so I usually carried biscuts in my pockets because there was no time to leave to go eat. sometimes, you're on the toilet and they're looking for you.

Bylaw:
Please is it like working like today from today 6am to 6pm the from 6pm to 12am =24hrs

Then 6am to 6pm=36days

Or is it 6am to 6pm u go home then return 6am to 6pm

8am till 8am next day( when work starts) 24 hours. No going home.

Racoon:
Nigeria is a wacked nation. The government have so much destroyed every facets of our national life especially the health sector.

No thanks to government officials especially the seating and past presidents, Senate president, NASS members and many others go to seek healthcare in cosy foreign hospitals in advance nations.

So the mass exodus of the best brains in this nation is putting unnecessary pressure on the available hands that defied the odds to stay back.

Now another young promising brain is gone because of the failed healthcare system and administration in Nigeria. May Nigeria never happen to you to feel the pain. Rest on Dr Femi Rotifa!!!! God's console to your grieving family and associates. Adiue bro

who are govt members
No be we Nigerians
Abi govt is a living thing

I wouldn't have believed the 72hour straight talk, but I will because when I had my first baby, the doctor attended to me in the labour ward in the morning around 8 said I was finger tip dilated but because I was 40weeks plus I would be admitted , around 11pm at night he was the same one that came around to check and then they now did cervical ripening.

By the next morning I was 5cm , I was shocked when I still saw that same doctor around the ward, though it was another doctor who attended to me, that guy worked for more than 24hours straight . I was still seeing him around by the time I had my baby in the evening, that's more than 24hours .

And we all know how busy general hospitals are, people were having babies steady from one mother to the other they were moving.

The ogas come around in the morning for ward rounds and they also call their attention if there's a difficult case, but generally these younger docs do most of the work.

Racoon:
Nigeria is a wacked nation. The government have so much destroyed every facets of our national life especially the health sector.

No thanks to government officials especially the seating and past presidents, Senate president, NASS members and many others go to seek healthcare in cosy foreign hospitals in advance nations.

So the mass exodus of the best brains in this nation is putting unnecessary pressure on the available hands that defied the odds to stay back.

Now another young promising brain is gone because of the failed healthcare system and administration in Nigeria. May Nigeria never happen to you to feel the pain. Rest on Dr Femi Rotifa!!!! God's console to your grieving family and associates. Adiue bro

Same scenario playing out in the telecoms sector. People being scolded on the job for sleeping and not picking calls while resting
There was a devil in human form then, Mr Voke who was so power drunk and obsessive about scam performance ratings, thereby working people to death. Telecoms power operations in Nigeria are 24hrs daily duty for those in the field..One of their top engineers slumped and died last month due to cardiac arrest

IamAsiri:
So sorry. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

Thank you very much

blowjohn:
Av worked 4 days straight before.

I know doctors who have worked 2 weeks straight. No going home

In that 4 days u didn't sleep in throughout days n night? Ur eyes opened up for 4 days n night straight?

blowjohn:
8am till 8am next day( when work starts) 24 hours. No going home.

8am to 8pm then u wont go home still continue through the night to the next morning?

Emary:
Yes, that is the job. The most you can do is doze. If patients come, you get up. The first call I did, I dozed for only about 15 minutes on the 3rd day. It was an extremely busy shift. That is generally the nature of medical work. You can't sleep properly while on duty, and whatever you meet on shift, you handle it as it comes. In a teaching hospital, there are usually no slow periods. It is the last bus-stop for the worst cases, so no breaks. Even eating meals is difficult so I usually carried biscuts in my pockets because there was no time to leave to go eat. sometimes, you're on the toilet and they're looking for you.

No that's not a job. The body demand u rest after 12hrs shift max. What u are describing is opening ur eyes for straight 24hrs or 72hrs straight no sleep

So how do u baf? That means doctors will be smelling.

NoToPile:
I wouldn't have believed the 72hour straight talk, but I will because when I had my first baby, the doctor attended to me in the labour ward in the morning around 8 said I was finger tip dilated but because I was 40weeks plus I would be admitted , around 11pm at night he was the same one that came around to check and then they now did cervical ripening.

By the next morning I was 5cm , I was shocked when I still saw that same doctor around the ward, though it was another doctor who attended to me, that guy worked for more than 24hours straight . I was still seeing him around by the time I had my baby in the evening, that's more than 24hours .

And we all know how busy general hospitals are, people were having babies steady from one mother to the other they were moving.

The ogas come around in the morning for ward rounds and they also call their attention if there's a difficult case, but generally these younger docs do most of the work.

God bless you.
And God bless you again for telling the truth.
Most people don't know how Dr works untill they have first hand experience. They only judge with clinic experience.

Some actually know but just being mischievous!

Bylaw:
8am to 8pm then u wont go home still continue through the night to the next morning?

No going home. Work through the night til next morning. All ur assignments for ur units u combine with outside work too

Bylaw:
In that 4 days u didn't sleep in throughout days n night? Ur eyes opened up for 4 days n night straight?

Sleep is like 20 mins whenever u get the chance.... In four days u may not get up to 3 hours of sleep

Can't believe this. We were classmates in school

Bylaw:
No that's not a job. The body demand u rest after 12hrs shift max. What u are describing is opening ur eyes for straight 24hrs or 72hrs straight no sleep

So how do u baf? That means doctors will be smelling.

What I described is the reality of a 72hrs call. Even the bath, if you have time, it's like a 5-10 minute shower. Not every shift will be so busy, but often you won't get the time to go off. If you take time to go far to do those things and any emergency happens, you get blamed for it by both your bosses and the patients and their relatives. Why do you think it is so exhausting that someone could die from it?

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

Lol. No wahala. Meet the nurses to treat you or any of your family members when they go to the hospital you hear.

Una go just come online open mouth waaaah. Na nurses dey do operations for theatre abi? Or na nurses dey treat patients?

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

I wonder how someone would sit in their house and concoct lies just to discredit a profession. I did my house job in UPTH and I worked like a donkey. I'm sure you say a call duty rooster where a doctor was on duty the whole month. You think he was in his house all that time? Also who do you think attends to all that crowd in government hospitals? Ghosts? I know you hate doctors (for whatever reasons) but try to speak the truth and not lies you heard from diabolical folks or you concocted

We all are part of the government. The attentionis mostly focusedon the leaders to initiate laws to tacklemany challenges we have but heck no. Once the head is severely sick, other parts will likely falter too.

erad:
If you think the government is corrupt, wait till you get to teaching hospitals.

It's no wonder your so called professors can't call out the government because they do way worse and won't want the focus of the government on themselves.

This is the terrible condition under which house officers in many hospitals, especially teaching hospitals, are subjected to. Many work on calls for more than 36 hours on every alternate days with no free day for rest. Those in slave camps are even treated better. Some people have to be held responsible for this, especially the senior doctors who abandon most of their responsibilities to these junior doctors.

creolehunt:
Well, tens of thousands of doctors are inducted yearly too. Trust me, the number of migrating doctors is very negligible compared to the numbers produced.

That said, it's not easy to also migrate. The process is very tedious and cumbersome.

So, we should relax with this talk of brain drain. There are still many doctors unemployed and underemployed littered around.

U r deluded. First things first, the number of doctors inducted are nowhere near that number. In fact,the number of medical students aren't even up to tens of thousands, never mind the graduating doctors.
Secondly the ones graduating are already writing exams to leave. I remember back in my time,we dream to be consultants after med school,leaving the country was rare. But now, most of the doctors are writing foreign exams during housejob and NYSC. So even with the numbers graduating, only few make it to the Nigerian populace. Most are consumed by brain drain

Bylaw:
Do you mean 12hrs straight or 72 hours straight?
I don't understand.

Is there anywhere in Nigeria you will be asked to continue working from day one 12hrs then continue 12hrs night then thr cycle continues till 72hrs?
You no baf? Freshen up etc?

Lol 😆
U don't know anything. Doctor call rooms have bathrooms. Sometimes you don't even bathe after ward rounds but dive into clinic the next day