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“It is a tradition, especially in our culture where we cherish seniority and respect our elders and that shouldn’t be seen as bullying.“In Nigeria, consider yourself lucky for a consultant to even answer your greetings. Here, it is a privilege to carry a professor’s bag, but in the western world, if you greet a professor repeatedly, they may think the person has a psychiatric problem.”
Even as he condemned such as dehumanising and against ethical practice of medicine, he admitted that he has heard of such in other places. “You see, medicine is knowledge and practice. It is tutelage; it doesn’t go to domestic areas. It is wrong for you to send your resident doctors to go and pick up your children from school except on a friendly note. It should not be the one you are going to do out of fear or being bullied because you may be marked down. In fairness, I do not have such experience and I don’t want to believe that any consultant will condescend to do all those kinds of things.
“So, these are some of the modifications that have been brought in to make the training more standardised and objective to take away all the biases and of course, you know changes take time,” he said. In Nigeria, however, a study titled: “Workplace Bullying and its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria”, showed that the prevalence of workplace bullying in Nigeria was relatively high with slightly above half of the respondents in the study having experienced bullying at one point or the other in the course of their postgraduate specialisation training.
He however told LEADERSHIP Sunday that not everybody would bully, oppress or assault their subordinates, saying he personally does not do that but rather he encourages them.
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