A doctor is a lapdog-yessir-how-high-should-I-jump slave. Their patients rule them, dominate, oppress and sometimes make them lose their jobs. You may have murdered their mother – they cannot turn their back on you! So if the nurses rap on the surgery door, and the doctor declines to exit, is he always unjustified? Just asking...
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wait - he was in surgery? the article i read made it sound like he was in a room (i presumed he was in the doctors' resting room) and refused to come out. if he was in surgery and was performing a surgery, why would he come out?
ReplyDeleteUm I meant his surgery (as in consulting room).
ReplyDeleteha! this is sad... doctors aren't slaves to patients - the art of medicine suggests a love for humanity, so this dude is just a jerk who forgot why he went into medicine in the first place, or perhaps did so for the wrong reasons...
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I don't think the doctor was in his office at all, as he was supposed to be. He was very likely at home sound asleep, or at his private clinic. That's how it works these days.
ReplyDelete@ yeh:
ReplyDeleteThanks for seeing the sarcasm. I tried to get us to question whether he might have a reason for not coming our (or not being there, as Anon suggests) or whether there could never be any good reason for a doctor not to "come out".
Didn't want to say this, but I knew this "jerk" many years ago. He saved me from measles when I was 6. He was a good, funny and kind doctor.
@ Anon:
ReplyDeleteYes, he may not have been in the room at all. It is surprising, then, that the nurses (and presumably other hospital workers) did not know that he had 'slipped' away. If that were the case, it would say as much about that hospital as it apparently does about the doctor.
who may have murdered who's mother? And which people cannot turn their back on who?
ReplyDelete@ Nana Yaw:
ReplyDeleteI'm imagining the situation where a doctor refuses to treat a dying man who murdered the doctor's mother some time in the past. :-)
He was more than justified....no wonder he's not being given a say. Guess people had knives out for him before this.
ReplyDeleteIn Ghana judgement is reached before the case is opened (is that a correct term?). Okay so we are all saying that the doctor is bad bla bla bla... what is the doctor saying? Has he always been like this? Is this the first time he never came out of the room? Please let's not just rush to judgement. perhaps he himself was sick and was home. The hospital is trying to maintain its reputation. This is clearly a PR job.
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