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We always think that there is a lot of time that we should procrastinate on things we shouldn't. Maybe I should just do it later, tomorrow, next tomorrow, Boom! Death just comes without alerting.
It's a general problem for people to paint federal teaching hospitals in bad light UNTH, LUTH, UBTH,UPTH etc. Whenever I see people paint these hospitals in those bad light, I don't usually blame them the trauma that comes from losing a loved one is crazy, in fact I have heard of radiography student who wouldn't visit old UNTH when his friend in medicine crossed to old UNTH campus because of the trauma of someone he lost there years ago.
Federal teaching hospitals are however the best hospitals in the country, they have the most numbers of consultant and professors who knows about your case and has handle multiple of your case, no private hospital in Nigeria have the amount of expertise in teaching hospitals, federal teaching hospitals are the best hospitals when utilized well the problem is that a lot of Nigerians bring their case late to hospital, when they have gone to many miracle, and religious centres, explore traditional healers and home medications, so conditions become chronic and the prognosis has worsened, then the Prof doesnt have much to do the organs and systems have been heavily compromised the consultants would have no choice to manage the few days till the patient is called to glory.
If you have a medical case, Teaching hospitals remains your best choice see the doctor early and your life would be saved.
If you don't pass any exam you will not become a doctor.
There's no need trying to understand the mechanism of electrolyte imbalance in a patient with bowel obstruction when you won't be assessed on it. After exams or in your spare time, you can read to add knowledge.
There's too much stuff in medicine that if you want to focus on reading them you can spend your entire life uploading information.
Most rich people—especially politicians—like keeping young people around and maintaining them on hope, with intermittent cash gifts here and there. They'll hardly give you anything to really benefit you, not a real job, not a scholarship, and when they do, you become their slave.
I know as Doctors we complain about salaries and all that, but I swear to God we are still among the very few privileged people in this country.
You go from not having a source of income at final year to earning above 400k two years post graduation. And it's almost guaranteed.
As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s hurtful and manipulative, and it’s not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. Taking care of them is your responsibility.
Instead of uniting to fight a common enemy terrorizing lives and properties, we’re busy seasoning insecurity with tribal and religious bigotry.
No generation of politicians has ever been luckier than this.
But why is Pantami being assessed differently, and attacked more harshly than even less experienced aspirants? There are people with uninspiring credentials and administrative qualifications running for various public offices, some with histories that are hardly praiseworthy, yet none of them is being subjected to this level of obsessive scrutiny.
Most of his critics have no idea who he is running against. They seem interested only in his takedown. Let us at least pretend that we are comparing him with other aspirants and faulting him based on where he ranks, instead of singling him out for exceptional treatment.
I understand the argument that his clerical activities may not align with his political adventure, especially since politics is often seen as a practice of double-speak and dishonesty. But since he is running for political office, we should assess him as a politician and not as a candidate for the Imamate.