I worked with many Nigerian doctors in my medical career. Arrogant, arrogantly ignorant, unwilling to accept simple facts like “lidocaine resistance” in a patient screaming during a toenail wedge resection procedure, very methodical, logical, narrow focus/skill set.
DoD is full of them however.
Also don’t get along with Kenyan doctors who I never had issues with but were kinder, slower to judgment, generally easier to understand.
But we are talking generalities here.
And I can’t agree with you more about Big Drug.
Look into the history of US Pharmacy (1890’s), and the payola arrangement between congress, pharma and the institution of the monopoly known as “Pure Food and Drug act of 1906” and it’ll blow your mind.
Imagine one private sector paying congress to pass protectionist laws for removing “choice” of medications and therapeutics from individuals gone wild to the point of FORCING said meds/therapeutics on an unsuspecting, experimental animal model public.
Oh, we don’t need to IMAGINE it, just look at the Covid19 plandemic history.
I retired from clinical care 2-1/2 years ago after an active 30+ years due to neuropathy from antimalarials and complex regional pain syndrome and am fighting the VA now over pain meds and pain management. Fun. If only I could grow my own opium… it’s NATURAL, you know.
Sorry you have pain that needs meds you have a difficult time obtaining.
Orthopedist gave me some kind of opioid med for compound fracture of wrist and I hated them, just took a few, tossed the rest or I’d send them if they would help at all.
Hard to imagine my Nigerian MD being arrogant. All of his patient really like him and his nurses and PA find him delightful. I’ve had terrific laughs with him, feel like we’re friends. In fact, we go to the same gym and he told me the exact day and time I could meet him there in conversation with his nurse in the room. Personable as can be.
Last time I saw him, several months ago, he’d just returned from a month back in Nigeria and was uncharacteristically serious and somber. He has family there and also volunteers at local clinics .