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Nigerian medicine lacks two important ingredients:
1. Compassion: It doesn’t matter how skilled a surgeon or how knowledgeable a paediatrician one is, without compassion, it’s impossible to deliver good medical care. Compassion is neither taught nor practised. Nobody cares. https://twitter.com/dra_001/status/1334377617189957632
1. Compassion: It doesn’t matter how skilled a surgeon or how knowledgeable a paediatrician one is, without compassion, it’s impossible to deliver good medical care. Compassion is neither taught nor practised. Nobody cares. https://twitter.com/dra_001/status/1334377617189957632
It’s the lack of compassion that produces doctors who behave as if they are intemperate gods, condescending, indifferent and almost oblivious of patients. It’s as if caring for patients is a pesky “optional baggage” to their title.
2. Regulation: Elsewhere in the world, Drs who show a lack of care/compassion on their own volition are compelled by strict regulatory regimes including registration authorities, the courts, and insurance. Behaviours and outcomes are measured against standards & failures punished
In Nigeria, the “it’s the will of God”, “what has happened has happened”, “let sleeping dogs lie” culture and of course broader lack of law and order in society means Drs get away with murder...literally. Nobody is held to account. So, why would anyone care?
Why does it matter? Well, first because people suffer as a result, uncountable numbers die or are maimed, and those who can do travel abroad for good reasons
It also deprives Nigerian medicine the feedback loop required to learn/improve. Systems that fail to learn are UNSAFE
It also deprives Nigerian medicine the feedback loop required to learn/improve. Systems that fail to learn are UNSAFE
