6inches:
The patient took it along,bro I see more of this all the time, you might be a good doctor but I know what some of your colleagues churn out in the name of prescription.

6inches:
and for your information i inquired about what she was treating she said catarrh,so shut the bleep up.

6inches:
We really have ignorant doctors here. Yesterday I got a prescription, the doctor wrote two anti allergy medication in one prescription plus a cough medicine again who does that. I had to scrutinize it. Some patients prefer coming to ask me whether this medication is safe for use or whether the prescription is right,trust me some Nigerians don't have faith in their doctors, it happens that way.

Below is an incerpt on UK Nhs advising the public to visit pharmacies for minor ailment so as to free up space for the Gp.imagine if everyone go to the hospital to treat skin rash malaria, athlete foot, do you think there would be enough space for you lots to attend to critical cases. Use your head, I just hate how you all reason

phaamsaam:

Little wonder patients are killed on an hourly basis in our hospitals due to little medication and regimen errors from I know it all physicians. Seriously we have a long way to go to achieve adequate and standard health care delivery in Nigeria

sogodihno:
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who is talking about side effect? am talking about possible drug-drug reaction that ONLY a pharmacist can see and call the attention of the physician to it. Why are my wasting my time arguing with you sef, it's pointless since u u claim u know drug more than the pharmacist. Baba enjoy your ignorance. Take care.

sogodihno:


can u just shut up! is it only dispensing they do? what about reviewing of those drugs before they are dispense,(pharmacy techinician will do that too) only God know the number of patient that would have die, if not for pharmacist that review this drugs and check for unfavourable reactions, of course u won't know, because they won't come to the media to blast it at your face. ignoramus. SMH!

Jman06:
I wouldn't want to go into details with you here, but just know that deaths from those adverse drug reactions could be avoided if you consult your pharmacist before giving those drugs. Thanks

It is only Nigerian physicians that claim more knowledge of drugs than druggists. Physicians in the west know better!!!

No need for further arguments here.

Amarabae:


You don't understand my point,
We are in Nigeria where there is no strict regulation,
I was talking about simple malaria and typhoid with NO COMPLICATIONS.
I wrote it up there.
Are you telling me that Many Nigerians who treated themselves of malaria and typhoid went to a hospital and met a doctor?
They only go if after buying drugs from pharmacy and it didn't go.
Many Nigerians when sick love to patronize private medical laboratory and then head to a pharmacy with the test results,
They find it cheaper.
And it is working well for MANY!
Unless the issue is a complicated one.
That's my point

Jman06:
You were making sense until the last paragraph of your post where you displayed a gross lack of knowledge of the roles of pharmacists in healthcare delivery!

You should have just done a little research on the roles of pharmacists in those two countries you cited as focal points and in other developed countries of the world.

For your information, Pharmacists do not only dispense drugs in those countries, they are involved in direct patients contacts through ward rounds and counseling. They check physicians' prescription errors, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, drug-disease interaction, and other possible interactions that could occur in the course of pharmacotherapy.
Ever asked yourself why Nigerian healthcare system remains abysmally poor despite government's investments and medical doctors being at the helm of affairs since Some of the reasons can be traced to other healthcare professionals like pharmacists not being allowed to put in their bests in patients care. How i wish that Nigeria could make autopsies compulsory before those who died in hospitals are interred. That will reveal so much about how Nigerians die avoidable deaths from drug errors and improper use of drugs when they go to hospitals.
Take a scenario such as this: An epileptic patient who is suffering from lower respiratory tract infection at the same time, he goes to the hospital and the physician prescribed a combination of erythromycin (an antibiotics for his infection) and then carbamazepine (an anti epileptic). Assuming there is no pharmacist around to correct such wrong combination, do you know that the patient would come down with carbamazepine toxicity with the resultant organ failures leading to his death This is just a tip of the iceberg!! Several of these interactions occur both in inpatient and outpatient settings and has led to the death of many!

Haven't you heard of cases where a man left his house to the hospital just to get treated of minor ailment only to die in the hospital following administration of some drugs prescribed by the physician Drugs are very dangerous substance that can either save a man if judiciously used, or KILL him if wrongly used. Pharmacists know drugs and their actions better than physicians as a matter of fact.
Knowledge of pharmacology which physicians have is not enough to make rational drug decisions since the important concepts of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are not discussed in details in most pharmacology textbooks, hence pharmacists study them further in clinical pharmacy. Some physicians i.e clinical pharmacologists may have some knowledge in this regard, but mainly for the purposes of research and teaching, besides they are very few.
So, the role of Pharmacists in hospitals cannot be overemphasized. If not, the developed nations you cited in your post wouldn't recognize them as key stakeholders in their hospitals to the extent of appointing them as CONSULTANTS.

N:B, I'm a pharmacist in training and my interest is not in hospital pharmacy but in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. However, the truth has to always be stated regardless of our biases.

Amarabae:

So if someone wakes up and start feeling sick, he goes to a private medical laboratory where they for instance will be diagnosed with malaria and typhoid.
He takes the test results to a private big pharmacy and the pharmacist there look at the test result and prescribe drugs for him.
What's wrong with that?
Doctors arrogance is the root cause of all this mess in the health sector,
N.M.A attempts to rubbish the pharmacy profession will continue to fail,
I see it as insecurity,
Yes pharmacists prescribe and treat non complicated health cases in their pharmacy,
Hug a transformer if you want.

Danaire:


Don't be an ignoramus by ur comment. Why did you further ur education from primary to tetiary level, if you did? Why did ur older sibling(s), that is if you're not the oldest, not stop you from becoming a graduate like them so they only can be called & reffered to as the only graduates of ur father's children, that is if you are? When you make demands about ur education to ur father, do you stop ur older or younger sibling(s) from making their demands just so that urs only must/will be met?
Think well with ur brain. JOHESU's demand is not somuch as about the monetary value only but it is all encompassing.

ozo13:
I have it on my fone in PDF format.I don't know how I can send it

ozo13:
Hmmm

DrAdonis:
This whole JOHESU thing is tiring. They are just fighting an unjust battle which is an eternally lost one. They just want to further destroy the healthcare in Nigeria.

Let me just explain one or two of what they are clamouring for to those that are not very medically inclined

1. Just because doctors are appointed consultants, they want same. Let us examine who a consultant is in the hospital setting and his responsibilities.

A consultant is a medical doctor who finished medical school, did housemanship and NYSC then writes an exam called primaries which is very tough and competitive with an average pass rate of 20% (not cause majority fail but they choose the top scores as pass) then work as a medical officer for varying years (some more than 10 years) before starting residency. The residency is the postgraduate studies to be come consultants in various specialities like neurosurgery, plastic surgery, Paediatrics etc.
The residency training is a rigorous one and the resident doctor works for no less than 68 hours in a week, runs the emergency, clinics, do ward rounds, teach medical students and even nursing and other students. The resident doctor also does case and seminar presentations carries out researches, writes academic papers and does a thesis (all these and more are necessary prerequisites to become a consultant). This residency takes 6 to 12 years depending on the specialty and it also incorporates very tough specialty exams.

Also take note that a doctor that does not do residency but has 20 years of work and surgical experience is not decorated a consultant.
So for a pharmacist, nurse or medical record personnel to just wake up and say because they have 10 years experience they should be decorated consultants is very laughable and shows myopia, greed and the entitlement mentality that defines JOHESU.

Also, and more importantly, the consultant is the person in charge of patient care and determines what tests, what drugs, what nursing care the patient needs and is indisputably the head of the team. He plays a vital central lead role and he determines who needs to see a pharmacist or a nurse or a lab technician. This comes with its challenges too, for instance, if any thing goes wrong in patient care, it is the consultant that carries the medicolegal burden. So of what use is the consultant pharmacist or nurse in this setting? The patient will only suffer and the standard of care will further depreciate as there will be confusion due to the many unnecessary captains of the ship who can do nothing more.

MaziOmenuko:


Nothing person no go hear for nairaland again. So aunty Linda no sabi say d1ckk wey stand dey give belle? So all the kobo-kobo gossip wey she dey carry other people matter put for head for her blog no tell you say people go put her own matter for head?

Theres no excuse for this jaree...especially when she has been in the forefront of preaching celibacy and encouraging girls to stay off sex.

Jmoore, come see your role model in celibacy issues. Babe dey take better preeq for sidelines.

Oritzy:
To be pregnant outside wedlock

Benjom:
She's not a good mentor

Mariinee:
With your psychologically imbalanced self, just don't wake and stab the poor girl to death one day. I wonder what girl would hang out with a mentally-challenged fellow gan? Smh.

worlexy:
What did Reno tweeted? Rule of grammar says "did" can't be followed by another past tense. So Mr Man, you ought to have said "What did Reno tweet " not tweeted.
second, what has the husband's qualification got to do with the wife's intelligence, so you mean the wife of a pilot should automatically be able to fly a plane? My brother, don't let hatred becloud your sense of reasoning!

Sirjamo:
What did Reno tweeted when a certain wife of a PhD holder addressed a group of women as "My fellow Widows"