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Death License in the Clinic by Joshua Nnadimma Ayozie
This book is a pure satire that ridicules the poor and substandard nature of the Nigerian and African medical system
Death License in the Clinic
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By Joshua Nnadimma Ayozie
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Nicholas Palmentera –
The Nigerian author Joshua Nnadimma Ayozie delivers again with a fascinating story of real life experience. This time he takes the reader though a seemingly impossible struggle of dealing with a serious and mysterious medical condition during the recent pandemic. Here we get solid glimpses of external and internal chaos, as the protagonist navigates a negligent healthcare system whose prescribed treatments are actually making him sicker and causing him to lose hope. This is also a tale of quiet greatness, which exhibits a pure and profound strength that could make anyone reevaluate their perspective on the challenges they face.
Michael Mbah –
The significance of a formidable healthcare system in any country cannot be overemphasised. Aside other factors which supports a comfortable livelihood of the population of a country, a good and strong healthcare system also play an important role. At the nucleus of all healthcare systems round the world are important values which not only guides the activities of healthcare practitioners but also ensures that the lives of patients who are entrusted in the hands of these medical professionals are protected.
However, these values have been compromised by some medical professionals and medical institutions across the world. This compromise is not only inimical to the growth and development of the system but also conspicuously detrimental to the health of individuals whose lives are entrusted in the hands of these medical professionals and their institutions. The purpose which these values and ethics of the Hippocratic Oath were supposed to serve is constantly being punctuated by despicable actions of corruption, complacency, and negligence by both the government and some medical professionals. Joshua Nnadimma Ayozie has relentlessly pinpointed these loopholes in the system as well as the dangerous threat they pose to human lives which has gradually eaten deep into the very core of the medical profession using Nigerian healthcare system as a case study.
Death License in the Clinic is therefore recommended to all not just because of its comprehensive elucidation of the inadequacies in our healthcare system but more importantly to medical professionals and practitioners as these revelations would throw them into retrospection and ignite and rekindle in them the desire to serve humanity without any compromise and in line with the solemn oath that bound them and equally propel the government to do more in areas they are lagging behind.
Maryann Okpala –
BOOK REVIEW
Having gone through the pages of “Death Licence in the Clinic,” I was made to understand that the author wrote out of personal experiences. The book was documented when he was totally down with an undiscovered illness by the medical practitioners. His ugly experiences pushed him to pen down every bit of what he went through in order to create an awareness and for corrections to be made in some of the abnormalities in our african medical systems.
The author gave his narratives at the very instant of his ordeals. It is a real-life story that was written under the probability of survival. The book is the summary of what many Africans go through on a daily basis.
This book must be a handbook to all medical practitioners to remind them of the Hippocratic Oath they took after graduation, which highlights “saving life at all cost.” It will help them to check the ethical standards of their profession. And to society, the book is an eye opener to some ill treatments from these half-baked medical practitioners, to know when to say no against the use of some dangerous drugs on you with the reason of saving your body from acquiring more illness to the one they are struggling with.
The author also invites even the government to look into the medical system, which involves the medical students, the institutions, and the lecturers. The high rate of death and strange diseases could also be a result of wrong prognosis/treatment.
-Sr. Maryann Chioma Okpala
CWPF –
thank you very much this wonderful review. could you please rate my book by clicking on the stars.