HOW MEDICAL DOCTORS DEVALUE THEIR PROFESSION

 A patient calls a Doctor on phone, tells him of some health problems and wants some tests to do or drugs to buy. The Doc texts him some lab tests to do and asks for no money! The patient goes to a lab were he pays money and gets the lab tests done. Patient comes back to Mr Doc who still for free, tells him the drugs to buy for the sickness. Patient goes to the pharmacy shop where drugs are given to him and he pays them on the spot! This is common among Nigerian Doctors. Most of us do this on daily basis, and see nothing wrong in it! At times we do it to prove that we know it. Or in the name of friendship or whatever ties. Is this not funny? Nigerians never valued services but only goods. The doctor is a seller of services not goods. Who is still wondering why JOHESU says doctors contribute less and eat more? The 'experience' the paramedics claim to have got{as the Doctors} were carelessly passed to them by Doctors! If not, why should a lab scientist ask a doctor questions like; ''Dokee which drug I go fit give my sister?, e be like say she get typhoid'' And in most cases, we simply tell them which drugs to use. The Doctor has made his role appear so simple by the way he transfers his knowledge freely and commonly among the community of health workers. Should this trend continue, the time is soon when only surgeons are distinguished among all hospital workers as everybody does the prescribing. Doctors should be wiser now!!!