Basket case! That's the name of the movie!

There are two major names I see here in the comments thus far. Ambode, Obiano! The people have spoken!

pericome, okala mmadu, okala mmuo!

zhyzhy:


Seriously?

I don't believe you don't know, but now I have to assume you don't and educate you.
Have you heard of Pathologists? Look it up.

By the way this is what is obtainable in saner and more civilised climes. But in Nigeria were there are few medical doctors, your guess is as good as mine.

Let me say this in Basic English. A doctor or a pathologist asks (or directs ) a laboratory scientist to do a test on a body sample he sends to him.

A doctor or the pathologist also works on the result of the test he has asked the lab scientist to do, cause (besides being the leader of the Medical team or acting in a supervisory role in this regard) he has the clinical information of the patient who he manages or treats.


The patient is treated as a whole and not as a laboratory result!


Laboratory Scientists are very wonderful people and there should be no reason why they may feel any less so.

Johnjnr:
is a no no!
Who told you med lab scientists work under d supervision of a doctor. Very soon u will tell us that pharmacist produce and dispense drugs under a doctors supervision.

Seriously?

I don't believe you don't know, but now I have to assume you don't and educate you.
Have you heard of Pathologists? Look it up.

By the way this is what is obtainable in saner and more civilised climes. But in Nigeria where there are few medical doctors, your guess is as good as mine.

How does the laboratory scientist that takes and analyses body samples under the direction and supervision of a doctor come into this issue biko nu?

OP you've done well by talking of the need of para medics but bringing in the lab science man into this play is a no no!

ability19:
MEDICATIONS ADMINISTERED BY PARAMEDICS.
Paramedics in most jurisdictions administer a variety of emergency medications. The specific medications they are permitted to administer vary widely, based on local standards of care and legal restrictions, and physician or medical director preferences. For an accurate description of permitted drugs or procedures in a given location, it is necessary to contact that jurisdiction directly. A representative list of medications may commonly include: Analgesic medications such as aspirin, ketorolac and paracetamol, used to relieve pain or decrease nausea and vomiting. Narcotics like morphine, pethidine, fentanyl, and dilaudid, used to treat severe pain, such as with burns and fractures. Adenosine, calcium channel blockers Diltiazem and Verapamil used to slow down excessively high heart rates. Parasympatholytic drug such as Atropine, used to speed up slow bradycardia heart rates. Sympathomimetics[6] such as dopamine, dobutamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine used for severe hypotension (low blood pressure), cardiogenic shock and septicemia. D50W (a solution of 50% dextrose in water), used to treat hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Sedatives like midazolam, lorazepam, and etomidate, used to reduce the irritability or agitation of patients. Paralytics such as succinylcholine, rocuronium, and vecuronium, used when an emergency procedure such as rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is required. Antipsychotics like haloperidol or ziprasidone, used to sedate combative patients. Respiratory medications such as salbutamol, Ipratropium bromide and methylprednisolone, used to treat conditions such as asthma and acute bronchitis. Cardiac medications such as nitroglycerin, aspirin, and morphine, fentanyl used to treat cardiac ailments such as angina and heart attacks. Antiarrhythmics such as amiodarone, lidocaine and magnesium sulfate used to treat cardiac arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Antiemetics such as promethazine or ondansetron used for nausea and vomiting. Naloxone used to treat opioid drug overdose and flumazenil..

In the Nigerian health system, the fight for superiority, and the fear for the sudden emergence of the Medical Laboratory Scientist has evolved into unbridled calumny and the use of such words as mediocrity, paramedicas as a weapon of PROFESSIONAL WARFARE by the NMA and her allies to attack other noble professions in the health sector in Nigeria. It is pertinent to note that a close look at the history of paramedics professionals, shows that every other health professional like doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiographers can function perfectly well as a paramedic, EXCEPT the MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTIST. The evidence is clear as stated above based on the duration of training, certificate obtained, general skills as well as medications administered by paramedics. So in Nigeria, the term PARAMEDICS is misinterpreted and misapplied because of selfishness and arrogance. In Nigeria today, based on what happens in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, I cannot see any form of paramedics activity established by law through the act of legislation in our hospitals. It is very important to mention that NEMA is in the fore front of coordinating paramedics activities in the case of emergency responses. In which have been tested over time that the so called coordinator general of NEMA is nt even a PARAMEDIC.#the_NIGERIAN_FACTOR.

For clarity’s sake, based on history and on the realities on ground in Nigeria:
Paramedics are pre-hospital in function, they are community, district or state based. They perform some procedures that physicians are supposed to do if their workload allows. According to the Britannica, “these paramedic workers perform routine diagnostic procedures such as the taking of blood samples and therapeutic procedures such as administering injections, or suturing wounds; they also relieve physicians of making routine health assessments and taking medical histories”.

Finally, I call on all comrades across the nation to stand their ground, on the paramedic profession, to improve and modernize medical practice and not to be subdued by it while we also inform and educate the people. I won't end this article without mentioning the BODY who has strive so well to keep the paramedic dream ALIVE in Nigeria
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How does the laboratory scientist that takes and analyses body samples under the direction and supervision of a doctor come into this issue biko nu?

OP you've done well by talking of the need of para medics but bringing in the lab science man into this play is a no no!

Besides I don't understand this issue of fight over superiority. Who is fighting who abeg?

Appearances can be deceiving!

A spare tire

The is no Rich person on earth who has not lost money. Not even one. Tell me If you know any. If losing money is the only excuse, it's not good enough. Dangote lost 5.4 billion just this year alone! Has he stopped investing? Your guess is as good as mine.

HAH:
To start with resident doctor are not yet doctors but doctor on training, they are the ones we call baby doctors, so the tittle of this tread is misleading.

The residents doctors are still students but get paid more than level 12 officers in federal civil service.

Residency must not be done in government hospital but for you to be a specialist you must go through residency, so any babydoctor that feel cheated should go to a private hospital for residency where he will paid 25k allawee

Just for those who may be deceived. All you've said above is very wrong. I leave you to your God and conscience to judge you

The OP has a point. But over the years the hippocratic oath has been modified to the physicians pledge. Instead of swearing to gods and demi gods like the earlier version did, the new version is a pledge made solely on your honor. I thought the op would have towed the line of saying Christian medical doctors should not charge for there services, since Christ did not do so. In fact, faith based healing like Christ did should be the Christian doctor's calling not orthodox medicine. Lol. I choose to differ Sir.

1. Manye aka na nsi aboki 2. Akpu opanda 3. Etelu ugba etelu osé 4. Nwata akwo na azu aturu ime mkpuke
And many more.... I love this guy's originality

The guy's skin colour has given it away. The girl is on trousers