"This might be insignificant but as a doctor, I hate when our profession is brought to ridicule by some “attention seekers” who just want to paint us in bad light. The tweeter most likely didn’t know what was going on and just said what came to his mind.
Lets break down the facts. A pad was left in the woman since two days ago- two days after an operation, a woman is still in bed, just getting back on her feet. It is almost not possible to barge into the office.
Secondly, how did she see inside
of her to know if a pad was left in her tummy or not? Even an x-ray machine
would not pick up a pad in her abdomen. I am assuming it was a perineal
(Vaginal) pad and it is normal to keep pads inside women after surgery because
of bleeding. This is checked about twice a day and like any normal pad for
menses, the patient should discard it at intervals.
It was sad
that our fellow Nigerians failed to reason things out before blasting
doctors.
Nigerian doctors are well trained. We like other Nigerians have been
failed by
the system. We make do with what we can get access to. I agree that the
female
doctor was a little unprofessional but look at it- she wasn’t said to
have
insulted the woman back. The man didn’t even look at the fact that the
woman
who entered the office was invading his own Privacy as a patient too.
Nigerian patients can be very obnoxious sometimes and need harsh tones
to get messages across to them. May God
help us all.
Doc P
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