There is this man (whose real name I don’t want to mention) who found himself in a terrifically ugly situation. Let me call him Roy for this piece’s purpose. So Roy had been Letisha’s ( also not her real name) boyfriend for almost a half a decade. At one point, it reached a time when dissolving the relationship was inevitable. The dissolution was necessitated by the fact that they were distant relatives and in their community, marriage was strictly endogamous, otherwise, you would live as outcasts. So Roy and Letisha dissolved their union and Roy got another lady almost immediately. Letisha, on the other hand, took relatively long to get a mate. When Roy’s wife was just betrothed, the neighbours told her that her husband is having a lover and she was just brought to please Roy’s parents. Roy’s wife asked Roy about the issue and he assured her that everything between him and Letisha was over and that he would never look back to her.
Roy’s Friend who was a physician Saved the Day.
Five years into the marriage, Letisha was not yet married. At one point, Roy’s wife came to discover that her husband was still communicating with his ex-girlfriend (Letisha). This discovery drastically enraged her. She was expecting her husband to take time and explain to her what was going on, but to her confusion, he never talked about the issue even after she asked. In the morning, as he was preparing to go to work, she was just continued sleeping and this was an indicator that she was not planning to go to work that day. He prepared and went to work, but after two hours at the workplace, something just told him to return to the house. He returned without taking permission. On arrival, he found her lying on the floor, foaming in the mouth and her eyes were stiff. He immediately called his friend who was a doctor and told him to leave whatever he is doing and move to his place which all anti poisons. The doctor arrived just right on time and he gave her medication to vomit the poison and gave her injections which saved her.
The Story Would Have Been Totally Different Without the Doctor.
Without the doctor, Roy would have been forced to look for a car to carry him to the hospital in that short period of time. Avoiding traffic jam without an ambulance or a government vehicle with a specialized plate would have also been a miracle. Then waiting for an ambulance from the hospital to and pick the patient would have taken a whole decade. Only private hospitals can be that swift but with them, you must spend dearly to be able to enjoy their upscale services. But with the doctor, the situation was put under control very uncomplicatedly.
What Are The Benefits Of Having A Physician You Know In Person?
Some diseases are arduous to test and doctors sometimes just make guesses.
An example of such a disease is malaria. There are three possible methods that can be used to test the virus but the two most commonly used methods are, rapid diagnostic test, (RDT) and microscopic examination of giemsa-stained blood smear. The RDT test just provides evidence that malaria parasites are present in the patient’s blood. This gives it a major limitation that it does not reveal which of the four parasites that cause malaria is the patient suffering from. The parasites are falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. maleriae. The method also doesn’t reveal the intensity of the infection, that is; how much the parasites have multiplied. This limitation can be solved by using the microscopic examination which is carried out by smearing the patient’s blood on a microscope slide and checking the virus using a microscope.
But for this test to be accurate, the physician should observe one hundred fields. That is; he/she should observe the bloodstain on the microscope slide, then move the slide to observe another area, and continue that way one hundred times. Do you think any other doctor will do that for all patients? Not very easily. But if you have a friend who is treating you, s/he can be of very great help.
They can help during an emergency.
Just like in the case of Roy and Letisha, having a family physician as a friend saved Roy from funeral expenses.
They may handle your problem personally.
When you go to the hospital for a checkup or treatment, the physicians may fail to give you appropriate attention for one reason or the other. Maybe your situation is exceedingly complex and the doctor just doesn’t have time to listen to every single detail from you. An ordinary doctor will just give some medication to try out then advise you to return for checks. But when you are dealing with someone you know in person, s/he will most likely give you an appointment on a future date so as to handle your case with deserving attention if at all it is not an emergency.
John Michael 