Stop treating people like cadavers, lady slams doctors in teaching hospitals
- A Nigerian lady called Eketi has told doctors in teaching hospitals to stop violating people's bodies
- Eketi stated that it is important to ask for a person's permission before calling student doctors to examine them
- The young lady's post got people to share their embarrassing experiences at teaching hospitals
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A Nigerian lady called Eketi recently took to her page on Twitter to educate doctors in teaching hospitals about consent.
According to her, many doctors in these hospitals must learn to seek a patient's consent before exposing them to student doctors and their colleagues.
Eketi stated that asking student doctors to come and examine the body of a woman without her consent is a violation of her privacy.
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Source: Twitter
The young woman noted that it is not right that a doctor exposes the body of his patient to others without asking if she is okay with it.
Eketi said people who demand their privacy at teaching hospitals are disdainfully told to go to private facilities.
She noted that many patients do not mind having others around but their consent needs to be sought first.
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Eketi's tweet got people talking as some shared their embarrassing experiences at teaching hospitals.
Read some comments below:
@YTAgbelese recalled when she went to her university's hospital because she was bleeding in her bottom. She said the doctor called other students doctors to come and examine her.
Sadly, she knew many of them.
@ugybabe2020 remembered when she went to her university's hospital to lay a complaint about her left breast. She didn't know she was examined by student doctors until she saw one of them in school.
@MistuRants said she was made to go unclad before a room full of student doctors when she was 19 and had alopecia and lupus rash.
In other news, Legit.ng earlier reported that a man appreciated a stranger who made him see his son on time in hospital.
The man called Makhosazana Khosi Malunga shared how a generous stranger offered him taxi fare after he learned that his son had been rushed to hospital by his caregiver after having seizures.
Social media users also appreciated the stranger and asked about the welfare of Malunga's child.
Lady tells doctors in teaching hospitals to respect patients' privacy
Source: Legit.ng
