Doctor's clinic

Good day people. Hope you all had a wonderful day. Well,I have been so busy through out that I had almost forgot that I had to write something for the day. I hope this is worth reading because I just have to put my thoughts together quickly and write randomly. I have never written a random article since I joined read cash. Pls bare with me if you wouldn't find this one interesting.

I remember some years ago. My elder brother had to undergo a minor operation. He actually had hernia which had been made him quite uncomfortable sometimes. Along with my parents, they visited a general hospital and the doctor that examined the hernia marked him for surgery the following week. He gave my parent an address of a different hospital at a much different location from the one he worked. I was quite surprised when I learned that the surgery was going to hold at a different hospital and I asked dad the reason for this. Was it that the first hospital was already filled up with admitted patients and there was no more bed space? I wouldn't believe this, because it was a very big general hospital.

Dad revealed to me that a lot of top doctors working in government-owned hospitals were engaged in private practice as they also have their own private clinic somewhere else.

As I grew up, I discovered that this was very common among a lot of doctors. As a matter of fact, even the doctors that don't have a private clinic yet were shuttling between two or three hospitals, in order to earn extra cash . I wonder how they manage to cope with the stress though. I also wondered wether this trend is only peculiar to the doctors in my country or its a general habits of doctors all over the world.

I later came to the realization that doctors in my country were underpaid compared to the salaries earned by their counterparts in the western world. Its no news that the resident doctors association had on multiple times threaten to embark on strike due to the inability of the government to upgrade their salaries, improve their working conditions as well as upgrading and providing adequate funding for medical facilities.

Unlike other employers who out of fear of sabotage and negligence of duty, kick against employees setting up private ventures. Most hospital managements are comfortable with their doctors establishing private clinic.

After all doctors can't be sacked and replaced as easily as individuals from other workforce. And by the way, the Doctor-to-patient ratio is very large, especially in developing countries. So, we need all the doctors we can have, even though it means jumping from one hospital to another in order to save lives.

It is also observable that a lot of folks who lived comfortably or are doing well financially, prefer to seek the services of a private clinics than public hospitals. This is because the doctors and nurses in a private clinic are more friendly and more efficient than in a public hospital. You also get to enjoy a lot of attention from them as the patients needs are being responded to promptly. Unlike in a public hospital where the queue can be very long and frustrating, and a patient could spend hours waiting for a doctor to attend to him or her.

No need to mention that the services of a private clinic are more expensive than that of a public hospital. Some public hospitals even provide free health care services especially to infants, pregnant women and the aged. Nevertheless, some folks who could afford it would still patronise private clinics since they deliver a more quality treatment and care. As as a person, your health and family's health should be foremost and nothing is too much to pay in exchange for a good health. As a matter of fact,I have seen a doctor who abandoned his patients on queue at the public hospital and hurried off to attend to an emergency call at his private clinic.

Maybe one day, when a doctor realise that the stress level is too high and might even take a toll on his own health, he'd come to a decision to resign from the government and focus solely on private practice especially when he is been overworked at the public hospital and underpaid. The doctor might hike the fees of his services at his clinic since it is now his only source of income.

There's this clinic around my area owned by a middle aged doctor. I was told that almost all the childbirth delivery in this clinic was through surgery. Even though a lot of delivery wouldn't require a caesarean section, the doctor would insist that it has to be done just so that the patient would pay him more for surgery.

There was a time that a woman in labor visited the clinic and the doctor said that the pregnancy was a " high risk pregnancy" and there was no way the woman could give birth safely except through an operation. He urged the lady's husband to make a transfer of two hundred thousand naira ( over 600 dollars) so that he can commence the surgery immediately. The lady's husband was quite poor and didn't have such an amount. The pregnant woman never paid any attention to the doctor and she continued to push steadily as she lay sweating on the bed. Few minutes after, a healthy baby was delivered. The father of the child was so happy he shed tears of joy while the doctor walked away disappointed.

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