• Home
  • News
    • Nigeria
    • Africa
    • Middle East
    • World
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • New Edition
    • Muslim News
  • Analysis
    • Islam & Media
  • Perspectives
    • Opinion
    • Press Releases
    • Editorial
    • Letters
    • Al-Fahm
  • Islam-tainment
    • Sports
    • Arts
    • Poetry
  • Multimedia
    • Audio
    • Video
    • Photos
    • Investigations
  • iGuide
    • Testimony
    • Salah
    • Zakat
    • Fasting
    • Muslim Personalities
  • Contact Us
    • Submit Article
    • How to place your advert on Muslim News
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Muslim News Nigeria
  • Home
  • News
    • Nigeria
    • Africa
    • Middle East
    • World
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • New Edition
    • Muslim News
  • Analysis
    • Islam & Media
  • Perspectives
    • Opinion
    • Press Releases
    • Editorial
    • Letters
    • Al-Fahm
  • Islam-tainment
    • Sports
    • Arts
    • Poetry
  • Multimedia
    • Audio
    • Video
    • Photos
    • Investigations
  • iGuide
    • Testimony
    • Salah
    • Zakat
    • Fasting
    • Muslim Personalities
  • Contact Us
    • Submit Article
    • How to place your advert on Muslim News
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Nigeria
    • Africa
    • Middle East
    • World
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • New Edition
    • Muslim News
  • Analysis
    • Islam & Media
  • Perspectives
    • Opinion
    • Press Releases
    • Editorial
    • Letters
    • Al-Fahm
  • Islam-tainment
    • Sports
    • Arts
    • Poetry
  • Multimedia
    • Audio
    • Video
    • Photos
    • Investigations
  • iGuide
    • Testimony
    • Salah
    • Zakat
    • Fasting
    • Muslim Personalities
  • Contact Us
    • Submit Article
    • How to place your advert on Muslim News
No Result
View All Result
Muslim News Nigeria
No Result
View All Result

Medical Blunders in Movies: The Case of Staphylococcus By Dr Maryam Raji

Muslim News Nigeria by Muslim News Nigeria
July 1, 2019
in Features, News
0
Medical Blunders in Movies: The Case of Staphylococcus By Dr Maryam Raji

Nigeria’s movie industry, famously known as Nollywood, will not cease to surprise us with their poorly scripted stories and medical trash, which are prevalent in both English and Yorùbá movies. Below is a classical example of a movie (name withheld).

A conversation between a doctor and his patient

Doctor: I called you here because of the result of the test carried out on you and your husband. It stated clearly that you guys are now free of Staphylococcus.

Blunder 1: “You and your husband are now free of Staphylococcus” is a blunder and blasphemy to the medical profession because of the impression, according to the movie script, that Staphylococcus is sexually transmitted.

The script writer would have been influenced by Nigerian drug hawkers (quacks), who sing the Staphylococcus  song almost everywhere, pre-recorded on moving cars, or when giving unauthorized lectures inside “molue” (slang for long buses commonly seen in Lagos).

Staphylococcus is not a sexually transmitted disease. Staphylococcus aureus, the most popular staphylococcus species in its family, is actually a skin commensal, which means that they live with us as humans.

Staphylococcus generally refers to a group of more than 30 different types of bacteria. As medical professionals, when we test people for infections, we specify the culprit involved, e. g. Staphylococcus aureus.

They are found on most areas of the skin and mucous regions but for a few exceptions. They help protect us from colonization by other bacterias that are potentially harmful.

Patient: Doctor, what do you mean we are free from Staphylococcus?

Doctor: The virus is no longer in your system. You’re both negative.

READ ALSO...  Nollywood actor, Omo Eleha's exclusive interview with Muslim News: The conclusion

Patient: Screamed and shouted, “Doctor!”, with excitement.

Blunder 2: The statements; “The virus is no longer in your system. You are both negative” are absolute misnomers and utterly misleading.  To crown the ignorance of the purported doctor in the movie, he says this to reassure the patient. I make bold to say that there are absolutely no strips to test negative or positive for Staphylococcus. If “our guy” were simply to have mentioned HIV, which is a chronic illness and for which humans can test negative or positive, this movie would not have been such a blunder.

Blunder 3: Staphylococcus is a bacterium and not a virus. The two are different groups of microorganisms

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ufvA5qwfg[/embedyt]

Watch: https://youtu.be/92ufvA5qwfg

In all, this is to warn Nigerian movie producers to research properly into medical conditions and ask medical professionals about how the medical world works, instead of displaying crass ignorance in public and in essence soiling the global image of Nigerian medical doctors.

While we await the movie censors board to up their game in terms of regulating what is aired on TV, we urge you, dear Nigerians, to consult medical graduates with certificates and not bus-hanging hungry men and women selling poison to you just so they can make some money.

Till we meet next, Stay Safe.

Post Views: 1,534

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
Tags: medical professionNollywoodStaphylococcus

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Translate

About Us

Muslim News, a publication of Rawshield PR Media, is a mouthpiece for underreported Muslim achievers and events in Nigeria and across the world, which are never given prominence in the mainstream media.

Email: info@muslimnews.com.ng
Tel: +234 805 240 4597

Our Mission

To give special media attention and coverage to important people and events in the life of Muslims that do not gain mainstream media attention, and to change the media narrative of blaming Islam and Muslims for offences committed in its lofty name.

LIKE US ON FACEBOOK

LIKE US ON FACEBOOK

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

About Us

Muslim News, a publication of Rawshield PR Media, is a mouthpiece for underreported Muslim achievers and events in Nigeria and across the world, which are never given prominence in the mainstream media.

Email: info@muslimnews.com.ng
Tel: +234 906 869 5152

Our Mission

To give special media attention and coverage to important people and events in the life of Muslims that do not gain mainstream media attention, and to change the media narrative of blaming Islam and Muslims for offences committed in its lofty name.

Editorial Policy

We shall be fair to all persons, irrespective of their religions and ideologies, as long as that promotes the image of Islam and unites the Muslims. We shall also uphold the ethical standards of journalism, as allowed by Islamic ethics.

  • Home
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Perspectives
  • Islam-tainment
  • Multimedia
  • iGuide
  • Contact Us

© 2020 Published by RawshieldPR - Designed by: STAINLESS COMPUTERS.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Latest News
  • Nigeria News
  • Africa News
  • Middle East News
  • World News
  • Sports News
  • Submit Article
  • Support Muslim News Nigeria

© 2020 Published by RawshieldPR - Designed by: STAINLESS COMPUTERS.

Subscribe for updates

Get all the latest in your email

Enter your email address to subscribe

Support Muslim News

Journalism takes time and requires money. But we have to keep going. Your generous donation will be appreciated.

DONATE NOW

or share the word

Share on whatsapp
Share on telegram
Share on facebook
Share on twitter

Close. Thank you