philip0906:

Rubbish! Hopefully, you don't loose your life to a senseless Nigerian doctor!

MasterRahl:


Nigerians have this belief that doctors are stupendously rich and so they do all they can to take a slice of their assumed wealth.

philip0906:

Complete bullocks!

You people think it is everybody in Nigeria that is poor. Some of us can pay for quality healthcare, some of us have comprehensive healthcare packages from our work place...but you know what, we'll pass on that.

The news is littered daily with gross incompetence from Nigerian doctors who have either misdiagnosed or applied wrong treatment regimen in patients leading to deaths and all. Thousands of Nigerians loose their lives yearly to doctors gross incompetence.

The Nigerian doctor is an empty nut head who is more interested in the prestige his Dr tittle accords him/her than getting the job done the right way.

You think your president, lawmakers and wealthy Nigerians who go outside the country for proper healthcare are silly? I won't even go near Nigerian doctors for a simple diagnosis... Incompetent lots

Pearl543:




Why are you so pained You sound so bitter

You really aren't making sense with what you are saying... Yes, their aim is to save lives but excuse you... How the hell are the going to do their duties, when there are lots of ungrateful folks and no equipment for therapy due to lack of funds. Even the government owned hospitals, get no aids from the government. So we shouldn't blame buhari What has he done to make the environment conducive for this doctors and don't dare compare over seas with this shit hole called Nigeria.
You should be happy sef that there are still good doctors who still knowing all this still go ahead to help when they can.

Yes, I Know there are quacks but still, how many of them have you met Don't let your sentiments do the thinking for you Mr man

obidr:


[s]Very easy to see that this fellow is underachieving, jealous, inadequate, low esteem individual who has gone paranoid either due to his inability to pass medical training or being found way below par in IQ to ever become a medical doctor... Maybe someone might have left his sorry arse to be with a doctor.. a wise decision by the lady in avoiding being a punching bag to this narcissistic sociopath. Medical doctors are not the cause of your deplorable low life but I can recommended sniper for you. Your death will do your family and the society at large a huge favour. It is one more bastard of the streets[/s].

tstx:
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Truth be told... Poor Nigerians are terrible people, very very terrible people

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Squillaci:

Because I know many morons doing well as doctors today.
Actually we need the best brains in the sciences in order to move humanity forward. Not medicine.
And then the above average in medicine, law, psychology and other junk professions.
The bright ones would figure out early in life that they can't have much impact as doctors, and would aspire for the more exotic professions.

philip0906:

Rubbish!

My post was not directed at foolish and senseless medical practitioners. Some of us, pay heavily for healthcare and do not get any value.

A simple trip abroad shows you how the senseless demi gods called Nigerian doctors, you included are incompetent. This is not about lack or unavailability of equipments, but simply because they don't know their left from right.

Thousands of Nigerians have lost their lives to the incompetency of your lots. Only God knows how many people you've sent to the grave.

Its a different thing if we don't pay for healthcare and doctors display this level of incompetence, but paying heavily and still can't get proper medical attention, is nothing but rubbish!

maestroferddi:
Granted that the guy went overboard, but the incontestable truth remains that some Nigerian doctors need re-orientation.

Medical practice is intrinsically humanitarian else the Hippocratic sworn by doctors will be a spectacle of nullity.

Nobody is saying people should get medical service f.o.c but then moderation should be the way to go.

Go to some government hospitals and see some doctors fiddling with their smart phones and wasting their time on frivolities when they should use their spare time to update themselves on mordern trends in their profession.

It is not every time we should be sounding politically correct...

philip0906:

Like I said, my post is not directed at poor people who can't even afford basic healthcare plan.

Many have comprehensive healthcare packages, are charged a fortune for healthcare by senile and foolish doctors, but end up misdiagnosed, wrong treatment proffered etc.

Why do you think wealthy Nigerians, your president travel out for healthcare? You think they're foolish?

If you can't perform simple diagnosis but complain about equipments, why should I take you serious?

It is better Nigerian doctors shut down their death traps called hospitals if they think the government is not giving them enough support, instead of sending more innocent people to their graves.

philip0906:

You won't even survive the grilling and tests to function as a doctor in the western world. You can only shine and send people to their grave in Nigeria, reason you're confined in one death ward called hospital in the country.

Now run along, senseless, senile and incompetent dolt.

maestroferddi:
What exactly is your point?

Society functions smoothly via the synergy of all professions.

I think it is dumb trying to justify the senseless uppity of some misguided Nigerian doctors by asserting that they should throw propriety and decorum to the winds because, according to you, there were better than their peers in high school.

This attitude of yours is among the reasons Nigerians beat local doctors with stiff rods.

philip0906:

You won't even survive the grilling and tests to function as a doctor in the western world. You can only shine and send people to their grave in Nigeria, reason you're confined in one death ward called hospital in the country.

Now run along, senseless, senile and incompetent dolt.

Zmkg:
Who is this faceless clown abeg? . You are just all over the thread. Na so your hatred for them Nigerian doctors strong reach? Wh not tell us your profession lets access how competent you are in Nigeria.

obidr:


Do not mind that idiot with profound psychiatric issues. He should check the pass rate of Nigerian doctors when they attempt PLAB, USMLE, MCCE. He should check the numbers of Nigerian doctors holding the health system in T & T. The idiot felt I was practising in Nigeria to find a way to continue to deride doctors, not recognising that there is a massive brain drain in Nigeria and why we doctors in diaspora are still concerned is because we have relatives still in Nigeria but the certified imp will not direct his anger to the appropriate channel because he already has esteem issues. Women should be beware of his kind.

HBB1:


Cost of admission daily in the NHS is about 800 pounds ( it was 600-800 pounds some years back).

If you call for an ambulance, 800 pounds...
A friend had to pay for an MRI once (since his NHS hospital's own was down)-- 950 pounds!

The State pays for all this!

The doctor doesn't have to rack his brain on what tests to do or not do ( because of his cheap patients).
You can do MRIs, HRCTs, CTPAs (basic things in oyibo land)-- not just malaria and typhoid!

People won't even pay for a bloody CRP in Nigeria, so the Doctor continues treating malaria and typhoid for someone whose kidneys are fried-- in Kidney failure.

If you are prosecuting a war, you don't mind your ammunitions, you fire away-- imagine being a soldier at the war front and counting your bullets.
Will you fight like the American Marine?

Even though I can't excuse the crass incompetence of the bad eggs, the good Nigerian Doctors and a significant number of them are decent, are counting their bullets.

What do the nationals then expect?
Miracles?

You expect Oyinbo standard at Surulere rates?

philip0906:

This is a valid submission. While I did admit in my first post, that outside the shores of Nigeria, Nigerian doctors perform the truth is back home, they see themselves as demi gods.

There are simple diagnosis that doesn't even require out of the world equipments that your Nigerian doctors back home, cannot perform. They only want to be called doctors and seen as Albert Einsteins.

helpee:
Tell us your own profession let Nigerians judge how excellent your chosen profession is....so easy to criticize others when you are most likely more guilty of laxity in your profession. I dare you to tell us your profession. In every profession, people need continuous orientation . So let us know how oriented your own profession is before you take it upon yourself to re orientate doctors.

maestroferddi:
Granted that the guy went overboard, but the incontestable truth remains that some Nigerian doctors need re-orientation.

Medical practice is intrinsically humanitarian else the Hippocratic sworn by doctors will be a spectacle of nullity.

Nobody is saying people should get medical service f.o.c but then moderation should be the way to go.

Go to some government hospitals and see some doctors fiddling with their smart phones and wasting their time on frivolities when they should use their spare time to update themselves on mordern trends in their profession.

It is not every time we should be sounding politically correct...

philip0906:

Are you an incompetent doctor? Why are you sweating over my comment?

Aren't you supposed to be in the theatre? You have too much time on your hand to reply comments!

Incompetent dolt! Only God knows how many innocent people you've sent to the grave through your incompetence.

KosiGee:


I only said that you should look at both sides of the coin.
In an organised country like the Uk, there are jobs, citizens work and pay tax and national insurance while a percentage of your earnings is saved for you to be accessed when you retire...In Nigeria the likes of Maina would dip their filthy hands in your life savings and flee.

Those without jobs are also not overlooked. While efforts are made to secure jobs for those capable of doing it, those who for medical or reasons of disabilities are not able to work receive financial aids.

How can the average Nigerian citizens afford those?

People will do all sorts to stay alive. I worked in healthcare Nigeria. I’ve seen a patient using stainless steel bed pan to eat. I made a report about it, explained to the patient what the bed pan was for, had it withdrawn. After a week in the private hospital, the patient was discharged, that same day, it was observed that the bed pan was stolen...

DrWhizy:


No be today sha. Had several experiences

The most painful was a child who needed to be taken to a tertiary center for an urgent dialysis after he had been given nonsense native drugs (as treatment for a possible meningitis)that had knocked off the kidneys. The distance between my facility and the tertiary center was much and they weren’t mobile. The child didn’t have much time and if they waited to get a vehicle (which would have been almost impossible at that time), the child would die. I offered to take them with my car, a risky venture because my fuel tank was in reserve and I had planned on refueling the next day. Luckily we arrived the tertiary center on time and i helped in providing vital info to my senior colleagues at the center. The problem became payment for the peritoneal dialysis. They didn’t have enough cash at hand and were pleading that it be done as they promised to pay the next day. To make it easier I lent the relatives a small sum of 14k which I luckily had on me; he also promised to pay back the next day as I left for my facility which was unmanned all this while. Unfortunately my fuel wouldn’t take me that far as the car stopped enroute. I trekked at that odd hour for an unimaginable distance as I didn’t even have a dime to get a bike (that’s if I find sef) and finally arrived. Till date I never saw mr x neither did I see my money. Got his number, called him and when he heard my voice he dropped and barred my number. Well, i know not to do such things again. I was just a Corp doctor trying to help.

AreaFada2:

You seem to hold doctors to a higher standard because of Hippocratic oath. Politicians sworn into office with holy books nko? Did it ever stop them looting money meant to equip hospitals and other facilities?

For the records, most doctors have more integrity in their overgrown toe nail ready to be pedicured compared to 99% of our politicians in their white babariga attires.

maestroferddi:
This is where you guys miss the mark.

Why must the obnoxious lots called politicians be your standard?

Enduring change starts when people are determined to bite the bullet in insisting on doing what is right and upholding a high water mark in integrity.
In countries that work, it is because politicians provided the enabling environment. Provided infrastructure and strengthened institutions. They present and implement vision into which the private sector and citizens buy. With all that in place, everything else works like on autopilot.

We are all affected by politics. You do not to in politics. I still wonder how much exposure to the world you have.

Is there any country with terrible politicians that is successful? Look around the world and tell me.

Yours truly is not tarring all doctors with the same brush: I had an encounter with a one-in-a-million Nigerian doctor lately, and boy! was I wowed.

The thing here is that reforms are needed in the medical profession in Nigeria unlike the norm of doctors defending their colleagues even when it is obvious that they made crass, inexcusable blunders.

Doctors should not be politicians by calling. It is a conflict of professionalism...

Squillaci:

Because I know many morons doing well as doctors today.
Actually we need the best brains in the sciences in order to move humanity forward. Not medicine.
And then the above average in medicine, law, psychology and other junk professions.
The bright ones would figure out early in life that they can't have much impact as doctors, and would aspire for the more exotic professions.