Human//Medical Doctor//Man-united//Christian.
Kaduna, Nigeria
Joined May 2015
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Seeing the sample questions on the just concluded MDCN exams😂😂
What do you mean it’s bloody?
GCS on an RTA pt?
Cranial nerve exams?
Counseling?
Clerking Infertility?
Don’t be a joker please😏
Just 3months in a pediatric private centre, I couldn’t deal with the fact that I’m gradually falling in love with the specialty that I had to resign.
God abeg, no be me be this.
Where did we get the ethics in Nigeria that allow restaurants to refuse hungry people food simply because they can’t afford to pay?
Why should a human being be left hungry simply because they have no money?
Since when did money become more important than basic human decency?
Another reminder for the Nigerian Dr/RN not to go beyond what’s at hand for the Nigerian patients.
Ungrateful bunch
Pidonsmart, MD retweeted
BREAKING: Nigeria: A Christian mother, Liatu Samuel Dawa, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the “crime” of evangelism.
Liatu shared her faith with a woman in Borno State who later converted to Christianity.
For that, Liatu is now behind bars and her family in hiding after Muslims threatened their lives.
The judge, A.B. Kumdila, imposed the harsh sentence.
This ruling is a gross miscarriage of justice.
The disgraceful action must be overturned and Liatu immediately returned safely to her family.
Free Liatu Dawa.
You can quote the chief, I want to see something.
Don’t focus on your exams, be dragging with people you only wish to get to their level.
Doctors are difficult people to satisfy.
If you must lead them, then you must know that they are trained to see and criticize anomalies in systems.
Pidonsmart, MD retweeted
Until we learn to hold the government responsible in this country, nothing will change. The healthcare system needs urgent reform.
Let's get this clear:
The doctor does not provide oxygen.
The doctor does not provide electricity.
The doctor does not provide medications.
The doctor cannot create bed spaces where there are none.
The doctor has no control over the hospital being understaffed.
Scores of healthcare workers have died due to this poor system. Nobody is spared, not even the healthcare workers themselves.
And that money paid for treatment in government hospitals? It doesn't go to the doctor.
There are basic amenities the government must provide. Medicine is not magic!
Let's all hold the government responsible.
Let's all vote responsibly. It's the barest minimum we can do to honour those who have lost their lives due to this failed system.
I still don’t understand why y’all smoke and drink alcohol(regardless the type)
It will never make sense to me.
None of the 2 appeals to the taste buds
Pidonsmart, MD retweeted
When Issues like this Come up, I see People very eager to Criticize the Doctors so I will Share Personal Experience as an Internationally Trained Medical Doctor that came back home to Practice solely because of My Love for the Country-Nigeria.
After the hurdles of Passing MDCN that decided that only 30% of Us international trained doctors is Worthy of Passing (Heartless Nigerian Victimization Mindset), I got to work in a Government hospital.
In an Emergency Department in a government hospital all I had to work with was my hands, a thermometer and a BP Monitoring machine that I go to the ward to borrow. (You don’t know how insane this is)
I’m not even talking about the fact that I’m sometimes on call 5 days in a week. That’s amounting to working 136 hours in a week.
I had moments that traumatized me, times I know what to do but lack basic equipments to do it with.
Was it the day that man was brought in Unconscious. I was about handing over. I went on my knees and did CPR, doing mouth to mouth with that man for almost 15 minutes before he regained consciousness. The joy in the families eyes. Got him admitted, just for me to come back to the emergency department in the evening, asked about him and heard he had died - the Oxygen was leaking, and they could not celotape it- A government hospital!
Or is it the day that 16 years sickle cell patient old only child of that woman- the way I was running around from ward to ward in the middle of the night looking for a department with Oxygen…
So when you come to emergency and we send you back, it’s because we can’t help. We know what to do but we don’t have what to do it with. Keeping you with us for an extra one minute can speed up your death so we refer you immediately.
Or how will you come with a gun wound at night to an hospital we don’t even have light and we are attending to patients in the ward with torchlight from our phones.
But your leaders fly to places where death are not just diagnosed with opening of eyes…
Then you say “Why do Doctors Strike?”
We strike because we deserve better than the way we are treated by the government.
We Strike because OF YOU. We need the government to listen to us and equip the hospital. Why should I be kissing that man over and over when a small equipment can do that. Why should lives be lost due to avoidable occurrences.
Even if Some Doctors are not sitting up enough (a Working government will create policies and stand on their feet to ensure it’s actualized and lead to better health for the people. Ask Peter Obi)