The best way you can ever repay your parents is by giving them nothing to worry about when it comes to you. You’re not on drugs, you’re doing the right things, you’re living a healthy lifestyle, you’re taking care of your responsibilities. That’s the best thing you can do ever do for your parents.
Doctors sometimes look calm during emergencies.
But inside their minds, hundreds of clinical possibilities are racing at once.
Calmness in medicine is trained chaos management.
We need an online platform strictly for referrals.
We don't even need to have EMRs connected.
Just a website with accounts for every secondary and tertiary institution.
As a referring doctor, you can easily send a referral with summary of patient care, pictures of documentations, and investigations done.
You should also be able to get real time feedback if the referral center can manage the case or you'd need to refer elsewhere.
There's so many things wrong with our healthcare system.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue with their MDCN portal??? If yes, please indicate it in the comments section, and someone will get in touch with you.
I used to be very anti-japa. I would argue about how we need to stay back and rebuild Nigeria.
But the day Nigeria almost happened to me was the day I changed my perspective. When one of my colleagues found out I had passed PLAB 1, she challenged me that why would I change my mind.
My answer was: “Yes, I changed my mind because when the facts change, I need to be humble enough to agree that I was wrong. What do you do when the facts change?”
The problem with most people however is that they will try to hide when they change their mind. That’s where the problem is.
Medicine is not a calling, it’s a profession and source of livelihood.
Stop devaluing yourself and let people pay well for the services you render.
If they can’t pay you well enough for what you offer, you have no business offering your services.