The Need for all HealthCare Workers to be Able to Control their Temper at all Times: Always Cheerful!
Mabiaku Y.O1.; MabiakuT. O2; Anyanwu, E.B2. & Umukoro D.O 2
1Department of Surgery.
2Department of Family Medicine.
Delta State University Teaching Hospital, P.M.B 07 Oghara, Nigeria
Email: yvonnemabiaku@gmail.com
It goes without saying that health workers are human beings facing the same issues and challenges as everyone else. These workers mostly work under the expectations by the general public to deliver answers to all of their health needs. Thus, such workers on whom public have placed such “divine” expectations on must be seen to be humble and temperate at all times. It will not be acceptable to see these groups of workers to be unnecessarily angry, aggressive, shouting, temperamental, easily aroused to anger, and worse still, physically involved in a combat. The observing public must be able to trust these workers and see them as mild tempered individual, who can reason with them, not appear as all knowing, not aloof nor proud. These personal attributes often put people off and the expert capabilities of these physicians may thus not impact on the needy(ing) populace. Healthcare providers must be easily approachable, with no obstruction or restrain, and be seen to be happy to help persons in quest for answers to their challenges. Even in the face of the inadequacies that are encountered regularly in all or probably in most of our health facilities, providers or workers must be seen to be tolerant, cool headed and not to vent their frustrations on the innocent populace. They too are probably equally frustrated by the near total breakdo
