Stats: 3,190,172 members, 7,939,738 topics. Date: Wednesday, 04 September 2024 at 11:09 AM |
Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Health / My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today (78013 Views)
12 Pointers You Might Have Heart Disease. Any Of These? See A Doctor ASAP / My Experience As An Egg Donor / What A Doctor Did When I Accompanied A Female Friend To The Hospital (2) (3) (4)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) ... (23) (Reply) (Go Down)
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by holland002(m): 10:36pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
If I was in your shoes, wat m gonna say is that 'I will pay' can't just imagine.... And u will b parading yaself as. A medical doctor... What a country.... Money is your main priority bro.. |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by sisisioge: 10:37pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Omg! Lord have mercy on us...Pls continue to shield us in the shadows of your palms. It us well. |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by 400billionman: 10:37pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
cosmatika: Doc, what is the use of NHIS ? And how does one operate it ? |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by bomasek(m): 10:37pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Dude intentionally let a patient die,he's grief stricken as a result of his ineptitude yet he thinks he's gonna get closure on Nairaland with his lullaby. Dude spare us the sob story,u ought to have attended to her first before making calls. U as guilty as your boss over her death cause your negligence caused her death. U don't sound like a strong willed individual cause u were a bit overwhelmed when the bodies came rolling in. U should do a bit of some soul searching and sincerely ask yourself what exactly made u spend years in school studying your profession? 5 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by stonecoldcafe: 10:38pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
cosmatika: ? |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by matrixme(m): 10:38pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
I wonder how you think that obeying an higher authority when a whole human life was at stake was a greater priority to you. You had the chance to save that woman's life but you didn't damn the consequence. You should find a better way to deal with your guilt than this, because it is painful to us the readers much more. 3 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by RedCapChief(m): 10:38pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
holland002:For how long will you pay? Accident victims come into government hospitals on weekly basis. For how long will you pay for food, drugs, surgery e.t.c What about other patients? They were over 10 victims dumped there. Will you also pay for them or are they unworthy of help? Those patients needed referral to another center. Will you bring your car or pay for a taxi cab? 6 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by joyandfaith: 10:39pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
timota: op works in government hospital. |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by FemiFaniKayode: 10:39pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Op is IRRESPONSIBLE you called yourself a common house officer that could not do "anything" but did not fail to call yourself that in the subject of your post. Your conscience is already taking a toll on you because you failed to take responsibility when it mattered most. Coming here to seek people that will suck up to you failed as i trust my people. If you were the only one left at the emergency unit some level of basic health care is at least expected from you or is that how you will be spending time on phone and internet calling your superiors for every other patient with minor ailments that walk-in? My friend you fall short of even a house officer my brother in "common" Med school would have done better than you. 3 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by Bjergtrolde: 10:39pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
cosmatika: Take heart Bro. You tried your best. Unfortunately, this is a result of poor health care policy. You can't change the world alone. Have a beer, get some rest and put it behind you. You were not the one that made patients abscond without paying bills. You were not the one who decided that the solution to above was not to touch until one has paid. Unfortunately, people will blame the little guy, you, instead of directing their anger in the right direction, the government. Oh, I can see that the lynch mob has already gathered. Ignore them. I will suggest that you don't respond to or read anymore posts on this thread 9 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by gunpoint(m): 10:40pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
RedCapChief:I doubt it. Not with a mentality like yours People must always challenge the system. So you met it like that, should you leave it like that? And if you do, where is the Nigerian improvement of which you speak going to come from? 1 Like |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by CioAngels(f): 10:40pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
My dear, you did everything within your power to save life but for your senior officer who gave negative order. Our stealing leaders are responsible for the death becos if they had not stolen the money meant for salaries and allowances these people would not have died. The blood of the dead is in the hands of our heartless and ritualist leaders. 4 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by ikombe: 10:40pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
ajuwarhodes: Who's this one? Its ikombe What if the said lady is ur sister? shit happens everyday. People live , People die everyday. U won't be here to spew rubbish o U are as stupid and mad like the pocket doctor? If you read his post you will know he is not the owner of the hospital neither is the hospital private . He never demanded for money his seniors who are training him said he should collect money before starting treatment . Treatment is not done by cloths, cotton wool or spirit alone, they are equipments in that hospital he needs orders from above in order to collect it from people who are in charge of dose equipments cause its not a private hospital. Everybody has his place in a government hospital. That is why he wants people to call on the government to create a law dat will make such scenario never repeat it self ![]() NB: he is d lowest rank of medical staff on ground ![]() cosmatika shey be i try ![]() 8 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by Nobody: 10:41pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
I don't pity you at all OP. I know how much they pay you house officers in federal hospitals, its as high as 170k in majority of the places. Infact none of them pays less than 120k per month. You mean you saw somebody dying in front of you and you couldn't even remove some money from your hundreds of thousands you have been accumulating instead of abandoning her because of some useless order from above? I know house officers and interns who went behind the back of their superiors treat patients who had not paid because they did not have any money, all they did was explain to the cashier at the pay point that they were going to pay in future and the cashiers understood that the situation was critical and their actions necessary. I am just really hoping the story is a made up tale like someone said before. 8 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by ajuwarhodes(f): 10:42pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
scachy: I wonder where he got the nerves truly, he shld cover his ugly face in shame,pls ban this guy /op/ doctor/ murderer jooo,seun I beg u 3 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by FemiFaniKayode: 10:42pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Bjergtrolde: What is this one saying? You are blaming it on health care policy,can you state which one with link and proof? make him go drink beer abi?YOU try clap for yourself no be only beer him go drink blood join 3 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by gunpoint(m): 10:42pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Bjergtrolde:No one is blaming the little guy. But when the little guy does nothing for the next little guy, he is only lying to himself that the situation will improve. This is why Nigeria has become entrenched in mediocrity. We have all come to accept dark age policies as the norm |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by Truckpusher(m): 10:43pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Bjergtrolde:A layman with some basic medical training from safety courses will stabilize that patient without having to use any consumable. I hope you find yourselves under such circumstances and be treated the same way. Oloshi. 8 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by omonnakoda: 10:43pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Whatever it is you criticize the young man for. You are focussing on the Symptoms and not the problem. This is just,yet again,another manifestation of the Nigerian Problem. Whether it is ladders on aeroplanes or police barracks like poultry or doing employment exams in stadiums. We set very low standards for ourselves generally as to what is acceptable or good enough it is a pervasive problem affecting every aspect of our lives. Where were we when TB Joshua's chuche crashed and he was bribing journalists to talk of a UFO ? We were screaming Touch not my anointed. We really are funny folk 6 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by spiralwedge(m): 10:43pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
I am so so annoyed. This op should reach authorities concerned... The senate committee on health, minister of health, of roads/works, state govt and the mass media. It is a good case study of the nature of our health system and our ill-trained doctors |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by Vikky014(f): 10:43pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
cosmatika:JESUS CHRIST. CRYING |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by kelechiMarie(f): 10:44pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
![]() 11 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by chrisdstar: 10:45pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
THUNDER4real:pple shud learn 2 talk about things they know about.the op said he is a house officer.the govt hospitals are structured in such a way that a house officer are answerable 2 a junior resident drs,d junior 2 a senior and d senior 2 a consultant.the house officer isn't a full staff of d hospital and as such,acts as ordered 4 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by sofadj(m): 10:45pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Dear Doctor, I was once in your shoes, when i was a house officer in a teaching hospital, there was an accident with mass casualties. Victims were hausas numbering about 20 coming from Lagos going to Bauchi, the accident occurred in the midnite and I was the HO on call, they had no money on them, many were unconscious, some were terribly losing blood. They were suppsed to provide materials to resuscitate them but as most of them were in terrible conditons and were brought by Road safety officials no one culd stand in for them. I placed a call to my superiors, they sounded like there was nothing anyone could do about it, but i didnt stop there, i tried to call the CMAC and then the CMD that night...none of them was availabale to receive calls. I later went to the hospital pharmacy, the pharmacists insisted i stood in for them, and that incase no one came to settle their bills, it will be deducted from my salary - ofcourse i did. We proceeded to resuscitate as many as we could and i thank God i took those steps. I knew it was impossible that i would be made to pay, just that no one never wants to take that initiative. Next day I went to meet the CMAC( Chairman Medical Advisory Committee) and wrote a letter. I had to write several lettters after that , but ultimately my name was cleared. It is actually criminal to seek first for payment before attending to a patient if its a life-threatening emergency. OP whenever life is on the line, always try as much as possible to do more than you can do. I understand the hierarchical system in tertiary hospitals, but if a life is at stake...damn protocol , save the life and face the consequence later. 39 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by Tonycart: 10:47pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
This doctor i don't really know why you were crying. Why did you not save the patience and face the consequences. To me you are a killer by the way why were you in the hospital when you are not allowed to treat 3 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by adahib: 10:47pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
alpontif: Nigerians always quick to lay blame. The op just stated clearly that he is a house officer for God's sake. He had no business disobeying any order from a senior colleague. The best he could have done was try to appeal to his senior,nothing more. Also,a patient who died a few minutes after presentation at the clinic following a road traffic accident,I don't think a house officer would have done much to preserve such a patient. Let's say he went ahead to disobey his senior by attending to the patient and the patient still died( which would probably have happened),do you know what he would have faced? Don't get me started on the issue of deposits. Personally,I believe that asking patients to pay money before attending to them in emergency situations is wrong,but having interacted with most Nigerian patients, it's easy to understand why some hospitals maintain such a policy. A little story. I covered a big private hospital in owerri during the night shift a few years ago. A man was rushed in one night with an obstructed hernia. He was in severe pains. As usual, no cash. I called the owner of the hospital. He instructed me to do nothing if they don't pay. The relatives appealed, knelt down and begged. I decided to help. With the assistance of two nurses, I did an emergency surgery for him. Two nights later, he sneaked out of the hospital without paying a dime. I worked till month end,I wasn't payed,and I lost my job. To what end and purpose if I may ask you. In the future,how eager to help do you think I will be? So guys relax, before we start blaming folks, let's reason it all out first. Thanks boss... 17 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by Vikky014(f): 10:47pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
cosmatika:JESUS CHRIST. CANT believe am in tears nw. May Her soul RIP. DT ur snr colleague is very wicked may God reward her in 10 folds atleast u would hv help her despite the order |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by kindredspirit(m): 10:47pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
........ [/b]" d patients were in pains, crying, calling on us to help, some already unconscious, but we couldnt help cos we have an order frm above. Within 5mins, 1 young lady in her early 20s died"[b] Op, you're Dr Hannibal Lecter, I presume? The above sounds Hannibal Lecter-ish. 1 Like |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by 400billionman: 10:47pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
cosmatika: I have a relation who is employed in the medical field. Once upon a time, his boss felt they were not making enough money and told this guy to prescribe drugs to patients whether they needed those drugs or not to increase sales. He was threatened with sack if he does not generate more money for the clinic using this evil method. This junior doctor maintained his integrity. Till now, he is still working. I believe you wont allow your sister die that way while watching her because a demon asked you not to act. 4 Likes |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by slimberie(f): 10:47pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
THUNDER4real:Chai! U pple can like to apportion blames o! Receive sense In Jesus Name...on the other note,RIP 2 d dead 1 Like |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by Bjergtrolde: 10:48pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
fellis: Jealousy! 1 Like |
Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by phemocheee(m): 10:49pm On Dec 26, 2015 |
Dear doctor, I'm not here to blame you but I just feel there was a reason you were in the hospital in the first place. Can I ask you a question if you don't mind, what was your job function while you were at the hospital at that point in time? Oh! Probably to make phone calls to superior officers right? As for me, I believe you could have done better... I think you need to read Ben Carson's book on how he made personal sacrifice towards saving a particular person's life. cosmatika: |
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) ... (23) (Reply)
Smelly Dry Vagina? Drowning Your Man In Bed - Jaaruma The Goron Tula Queen / How I Burnt My Chest After Using Harsh Chemicals On It (Graphic) / Malawian Lady Commits Suicide After Her Boyfriend Ended Their Relationship
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 131 |