I have heard the saying that "[i]the doctors know bette[/i]r", but it is not always the truth.. I have encountered terrible and poorly trained doctors. I will cite 2 scenarios.
1. About a decade ago, my uncle who had been having feverish feeling woke up one morning with blood stains in his eyes. I was assigned to take him to a popular church hospital, somewhere in Oloosha mushin. On getting there, the doctor on duty examined him and concluded we had to start eye treatment, that the eye must have been injured. He asked if d man ever had any thing hit him in the eye, and the man answered no, yet the fùfú doctor insisted we must commence eye treatment. Anyway we left because their fee were too high.
We then went to Mushin Local Govt Community hospital in Palm Avenue. The doctor on seat was a graduate of OAU, whom I knew earlier in the neighbourhood. We exchanged pleasantries and he started diagnosis on my uncle. Guess what, after the excellent diagnosis, he deduced that the man's BP rose so much and his veins (including the one in d eyeball bursted). We starred BP treatment, and to God's glory, the man's health was stabilised and his eyes were clear in a short time.

2. M The second one happened in 2019, to my church member who was down with fever. He was in a community hospital around Ayobo, Lagos, and the female doctor knew he needed urgent malaria treatment, so she ordered us to take him to the general hospital somewhere in Alimosho. On getting to d general hospital, the doctor on duty refused to attend to him. In fact we saw the doctor a few meters away discussing with a lady. When I saw the situation of the brother, I picked him and we went to join the doctor, and he grudgingly disengaged d lady.
The diagnosis started and the doctor said "I saw u when u guys came in, u were staggering. Tell me the truth, do use any drugs? ". The young man answered *no*. Then the doctor responded, "u are not ready to be helped".
The young patient brought out his cellphone and said "sir I saw it online that when malaria parasites cumulative so much in d blood stream, they can block the blood vessels supplying the brain, thus affecting balance, memory and so on". The young man is not even anything near a medical professional. He was a struggling graduate, trying to explore computer programming career.
The doctor felt so embarrassed and answered "aren't u a Christian? Are u supposed to believe such....", in an attempt to cover for his failure. Then he wrote something in a paper and gave me, asked me to take it to d pharmacy. It was MALARIA injection that was written there. I bought it and he directed us to somewhere nurses were, and the young man was given d injection, and we also bought malaria medications on the counter, and to cut long story short, the young man recovered.

Always consult Google any time you are with these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

They prescribed a drug that killed my dad who was suffering from prostate cancer.

After injecting him with it his condition deteriorated and he died after few days.
A doctor in the US after reviewing treatment my late dad received concluded they shouldn't have administered that particular drug.

The annoying part is doctors are always not held accountable and they are always exhibiting nonchalant attitude together with their nurses from hell.

I would rather think of him as inexperienced. Yet, in it all, God knows best.

Wizuman:
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Always consult Google any time you are with these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

That you met doctors who had no idea of what to do does NOT give you the right to advise people to consult Google when they want to visit doctors. It's a very wrong and dangerous idea you are giving to people.

You ought to know that there are specialist for various ailment and colloquially, they're called physians or doctors.

Also, it should be noted that Nigerian Healthcare is alarmingly grossly under staffed with specialist healthcare professionals.

Another thread created a malign doctors.
Make una continue.

Haaa😂
The best doctors give the least medicine , others are just doing medical business 😂😂

imagine a doctor rejected my lab result just because I didn’t do the lab at the laboratory he referred me to .. which I later found out belongs to his wife…
doctors are just the same as lawyers, the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too…

if your doctor say you have 6 weeks to live, just tell him the money you’re expecting to pay his bills will arrive in a couple of months… he will check you again and give you 6 months to live..😂😂😂

Lost my elder brother because of a useless doctor that kept treating stomach ulcer instead of hepatitis.

Next time consult Google , don't go to any Doctor. Since you know it all.

Why you no treat your friend?

What if the doctor is me ?


Here we go... I prescribed myself a dose of well wrapped Arizona, tightly rolled in a brown feather thin rizla wrapping paper, 5 times a day for a period of not less than 7 years

Eventually I was cured .... From the useless drug!!!!

Never again !!!!!

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Tinubu has finished nigeria, what we have now are mostly doctored who don’t know what they are doing

Your last paragraph may not be true.Going through medical school is not a child's play.

While influencing Jamb scores by parents is common practice, getting into medical and surviving the program till graduation is different ball game.

Most times deficient students end up dropping out early in the program.

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He raped me

He is actually a Psychiatrist I worked with in managing a patient with Schizoaffective disorder.....he was using the patient as an experiment because the combination of medication was so wrong and was adversely affecting the patient. Made sure I informed my consultant about his incompetency.

Avoid Nigerian Police Station and. Nigerian Hospital

E get why



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Quack doctor you mean.


Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

-Thomas Carlyle

Wizuman:

Always consult Google any time you are with these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

This is dumb

Always consult Google any time you are these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

nonsense

You last paragraph is suicidal and can cause murder

You better remove it

Lost my Dad too.
Most doctors are for trial and error.
Make good money and seek better health facilities. There still good and sound medical doctors, just that they're mostly not affordable.

I won't use the word incompetent

For some, inexperience
For some, stress of the work
For most, it's pride.

Mine is UPTH, 2016
A surgeon

He pronounced my name, and asked why I pronounced it another way
I told him, the way I pronounced it is the right way
Polite discussion, I was even smiling, thinking it's a normal human being I was talking to

He shouted that I'm not a serious human being, that I can't even pronounce my name
Told me I should leave his office

I was still smiling, I thought it was a joke,
Long story short, he chased me out of the office.
The matron outside signaled another woman to enter his office, elderly woman, probably 70's, the surgeon started shouting she's walking too slow, and it's like she's not serious.
Other patients were replying

"doctor take it easy na, don't you have a mother?, this is a government hospital na, take it easy doctor"

He started shouting to the matron to call another patient.

UPTH will humble you in this life. I kept wondering if I went ahead with the surgery there, the man can even slap me on the hospital bed.

N/B
This period was a very depressing period in my life. Low self esteem at its lowest ever. I couldn't even speak back. Zero confidence. No job. I regret leaving the hospital like a coward till today. Especially after the surgeon shouted at the elderly woman.

1Sharon:
Next time consult Google , don't go to any Doctor. Since you know it all.

Do you know the number of conflicting results you will see on Google

Titalinayi:

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Most of these doctors are not incompetent, you'd find that the hospitals lack proper resources and as a result, the doctors are overwhelmed with too much work.

And sometimes you'd also find that the doctors are outnumbered in a hospital full of many patients who need to be attended to.

Wizuman:
Always consult Google any time you are with these so called "doctors'. . Most of the people we call doctors nowadays are young children who weren't smart enough to pass jamb, and their parents used alternative admission routes to help them study Medicine.
Moral of my epistle: The doctors don't always know better.

Haaa

soccerlite:


Do you know the number of conflicting results you will see on Google

I'm being sarcastic.

My newly married wife can not give birth because of wrong appendix surgery by an incompetent doctor.

Her stomach is deformed

I usually had this episode of stomach ache. Over time it became so serious that the pains normally lasts days.
During this episodes I’ll throw up. Once I do I’ll feel better.
After which the pains would move to my abdomen.
On one such occasion, I decided to visit a private clinic. After spending so much time, I met the doctor he examined me and said it was appendicitis. He didn’t perform any test. He told me I’ll be admitted for surgery the same day. The only thing that saved me was because I didn’t have the 500k in my account.
I went home, went for a lab test and was told it’s excessive gas in my stomach.
I went with the result to another hospital where drugs were prescribed.
Na so dem for don tear my belle o