MEDICAL PROFESSION A CAREER TO LOOK
WHAT IS CAREER?
Career is a job for which one is trained and which intends to follow for the rest of one’s life. Modern civilization has created a wide range of job opportunities and choosing a career in most cases, therefore, involves a choice between equally attractive ,and often competing alternatives.
Would you like to be a medical practitioner?
To become a medical practitioner maybe as a result from the fact that you have had a very close contact with doctors from early childhood-contact, this gives you a favorable impression about this profession.
A doctor is important in every community.He/She heals the sick and helps to maintain a healthy workforce for the community. Doctors are the agents on whom every health-care delivery system depends on.
The medical profession requires special talent and skill. Anybody6 who wants to take to up a medical career must have a aptitude for science because much of the training He/She will receive will be based on scientific knowledge.
Besides this factors medical practitioners show certain traits which make you choose medicine as a career. Doctors are patient and tolerant. They love humanity and are desirous in eradicating disease and the suffering it brings about. They have a scientific attitude to life, disease and death.
They do not believe that disease and death are caused by the wrath of the gods or witches. They attempt to find the cause and cure for disease through laboratory diagnosis, x-rays and drug administration.
Furthermore, good medical practitioners are friendly people. They listen patiently to the sick to be able to relate particular symptoms with particular disease.
They try to endure the acrid smell of bleeding patients on operation tables and the stench from the gangrenous (decay in human body or wound). Wounds of the sick in consulting rooms sometimes, the thought of a suffering patient in a ward will keep a good doctor away from his/her family. Doctors give encouragements to patients even in near death situations and they do their best to revive such patients.
Doctors are careful people, they are cautious in the prescription and use of drugs as well as in their treatment of people. They show this carefulness in several other ways.
They inspect drugs before they use them to ensure that people are not treated with drugs that have past their expiry dates. The way doctors inject young children when they scream and flex their muscles at the sight of an injection needle and syringe is a fascinating aspect of doctors carefulness. If you think of the level of carefulness a doctor shows when he/she performs a minor surgical operation or a more intricate process such as heart-transplant surgery or brain operation, then you will be convinced that the doctor’s carefulness is unmistakably real.
Today modern immunization has reduced the risk of infection from patients. Some of the other disadvantages can also be minimized by introducing good insurance polices and attractive wages. However, nothing can detract from the fact that medical profession is a noble one..

HEALTH IS WEALTH
Health and peace of mind are among life’s greatest treasures if I may say health is wealth. Whatever our age or means, most of us may enjoy a fuller degree of physical health and none need lack mental peace. Everyone holds the key. We shall endeveavour to set forth certain basic principles which are necessary for the key to be used effectively.
The fact is obvious that on every hand we find suffering and disease. People are afflicted with all kinds of ailments among which cancer, diabetes and disease of the heart and blood vessels rank high increasing demand is made on the hospital services. As we become aware of the prevailing condition, we might well ask, how can we avoid serious illness?
FIRST OF ALL WHAT IS HEALTH?
According to Taber’s medical dictionary, "health is a wholesome condition in which all functions of the body mind are normally active". The state of being physical and mentally healthy. From this, we see that the normal natural state is what we mean by "health".
WHAT IS DISEASE?
A "disease condition develops when we not main train healthy". Disease is the absence of health. Thus, the physician combats disease not so much by concentrating on the disease itself, as by seeking to restore health.
It is recognized that the right approach to the problem of curing or avoiding disease, is to concentrate on restoring or maintaining positive health. For instance, a nurse is taught that she must give special attention to diet, cleanliness, fresh air, rest and exercise. If she must maintain her health in this way, she will be better able to endure the strain of attending to the sick, thereby germs and disease will not be able to flourish.
Generally speaking, the same rules she follows in order to maintain health, her patient must follow in order to regain health though they will need to adhere even more strictly to nature’s rules during the period of restoration. Any injurious habits should be corrected, so that bodily health is restored to the point where disease germs are simply unable to flourish.
But how can we build up our health? Proper nutrition comes first. The greatest single factor of promoting and maintaining good health is proper nutrition. Without it disease is sure to appear. Right food forms the foundation for health. Poor food means poor nutrition, and poor nutrition leads to poor physical structure, and poor structure spells ill health and disease.
There are many other factors to be considered of course. These include exercise, fresh-air, proper clothing personal hygiene, and mental peace . But food is the greatest single factor.