Zangazanga:
No. Sue the hospital and claim damages. Who knows, that how breakthrough is coming your way this 2020

Oma307:
I think it's wrong of the doctor to do. I think there is a channel you can lay your complain to the appropriate authority for action

yazga:
No. It's unprofessional. They are to suggest that to the couple and if they agree, then they can go ahead. No investigation should be carried out by any medical personnel without the consent of the client else he will be liable for violation of privacy

Amanee:
I'm not a doctor but I think that for a doctor to get the full picture of what ails the patient, a battery of tests should be done.

Not doing this is tantamount to working blind.

But most Nigerians are used to self medication because I don't know why you'll go to a hospital and tell a doctor to give you drugs for an illness you may or may not have.

Pregnancy test should even be done because some of these drugs are not good for pregnant women.

cococandy:
The doctor is supposed to explain to the patient/s what she suspects to be the possible cause/s of the symptoms. The patient then gives the doctor the permission to carry out the tests and treatments where applicable. Remember the bill is going to be paid by the patient. You don’t carry out tests willy nilly as if you will be the one to pay.

There’s something called autonomy. And it’s the cardinal rule in medicine. The patient has autonomy over their own care. If they don’t agree to any test, then you don’t proceed with it. However YOU HAVE TO educate them on the importance and risks versus benefits of compliance. If the patient is an adult and deemed capable of making their own decisions, then the patience decisions will be followed.

This doesn’t apply in the case of a mentally deficient patient or a minor. Or in a case where the patient poses a contagious/infectious risk to others around them.

thorpido:
Well said
The doctor wants to run tests but will inform the patient and obtain consent.

IyaTola:
I want to ask please, but there is something that made me raise an eyebrow. When a man gets to the hospital/lab to run a malaria test on his sick wife, they asked for malaria test only, is it right for the doctor to do pregnancy test on the woman without the couples authorization?

bukatyne:


Really?

It is the duty of the doctor to carry out a diagnosis on the patient which is not limited to full blood work.

If a patient knows the problem, he/she should not bother going to the hospital.

lavylilly:
why?The problem is that non medical persons go to the hospital to tell a professional what to do.
When you go to the hospital , you're not to request for any test rather it's the doctor's prerogative to recommend tests based on your case history, signs and symptoms you present with.

A well-trained doctor will run a series of tests when a patient presents symptons he/she can't easily diagnose, only telling the patient or handler (where the patient is indiposed)
1., because there is cost involved, and
2. If the results present something different from what the patient thinks is wrong.
There is no law broken here. And to the best of my knowledge, there is no requirement to tell or ask a patient before a test is done.
Doctors don't have to ask or inform a patient before any test is carried out on a patient who presents himself/herself for treatment.

What if the patient is unconscious? What if s/he is an emergency case?
I went to donate blood a couple of months back. No one told me my blood pressure would be checked and a series of tests, including hepatitis and HIV tests, would be conducted.
But they did conduct those tests and only told AFTER I had given the blood, and I questioned why no screening of the blood was done.
"We did those already, Ma" was what the attending nurse told me.
And in this scenario here, however, are you sure the husband himself didn't ask for the pregnancy test to be done, perhaps after suspecting his wife may actually be showing pregnancy symptons?

SilvaBullet:


Seems to me you're comfortable with unprofessional conduct with most doctors who know nothing about the ethics guiding doctor / patient relationship.

The patient has a right to know what tests are to be conducted on him or her and what the implications if any might arise as a result. Patients are not lab rats.

IyaTola:
I want to ask please, but there is something that made me raise an eyebrow. When a man gets to the hospital/lab to run a malaria test on his sick wife, they asked for malaria test only, is it right for the doctor to do pregnancy test on the woman without the couples authorization?

lavylilly:


I went to donate blood a couple of months back. No one told me my blood pressure would be checked and a series of tests, including hepatitis and HIV tests, would be conducted.
But they did conduct those tests and only told AFTER I had given the blood, and I questioned why no screening of the blood was done.
"We did those already, Ma" was what the attending nurse told me.
And in this scenario here, however, are you sure the husband himself didn't ask for the pregnancy test to be done, perhaps after suspecting his wife may actually be showing pregnancy symptons?

IyaTola:
I want to ask please, but there is something that made me raise an eyebrow. When a man gets to the hospital/lab to run a malaria test on his sick wife, they asked for malaria test only, is it right for the doctor to do pregnancy test on the woman without the couples authorization?

cococandy:
The doctor is supposed to explain to the patient/s what she suspects to be the possible cause/s of the symptoms. The patient then gives the doctor the permission to carry out the tests and treatments where applicable. Remember the bill is going to be paid by the patient. You don’t carry out tests willy nilly as if you will be the one to pay.

There’s something called autonomy. And it’s the cardinal rule in medicine. The patient has autonomy over their own care. If they don’t agree to any test, then you don’t proceed with it. However YOU HAVE TO educate them on the importance and risks versus benefits of compliance. If the patient is an adult and deemed capable of making their own decisions, then the patient’s decisions will be followed.

This doesn’t apply in the case of a mentally deficient patient or a minor. Or in a case where the patient poses a contagious/infectious risk to others around them.

lahizak:

U are partly wrong. A doctor is a professional. When you come in for a malaria test, d doctor will not just take ur word 4 it, for example u might think u av malaria and end up aving sumtin else. So the doctor will conduct a test and during the test, the lab result will show the causes of the malaria or wat u tot to be d malaria, if the test shows that the malaria is as a result of pregnancy, den d doctor will inform u but if the malaria have nothing to do with pregnancy den the doctor wont say anything about pregnancy.
Just imagine in this kind situation, d doctor just do malaria test and he ended up giving u drugs not knowing u re pregnant and d drugs end up affrcting the baby, wat do u tink will happen? Note that there are some malaria drugs dat a pregnant woman cant use

lahizak:

U are partly wrong. A doctor is a professional. When you come in for a malaria test, d doctor will not just take ur word 4 it, for example u might think u av malaria and end up aving sumtin else. So the doctor will conduct a test and during the test, the lab result will show the causes of the malaria or wat u tot to be d malaria, if the test shows that the malaria is as a result of pregnancy, den d doctor will inform u but if the malaria have nothing to do with pregnancy den the doctor wont say anything about pregnancy.
Just imagine in this kind situation, d doctor just do malaria test and he ended up giving u drugs not knowing u re pregnant and d drugs end up affrcting the baby, wat do u tink will happen? Note that there are some malaria drugs dat a pregnant woman cant use