Mobile “doctors” and their medical diagnosis in rural Southern Nigeria. Truth or deception? A public health case report

Mobile “doctors” are traditional herbal medical practitioners who move from one rural community in Nigeria to another diagnosing disease using a digital thermometer and stethoscope before selling their herbal drugs to the patients. Are their diagnosis correct or just a deception? This reports looks...

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Autores principales: Umeh, Chukwuemeka Anthony, Onyi, Stella Chioma, Ahaneku, Hycienth Peterson
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374647
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.17.148.3777
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description Mobile “doctors” are traditional herbal medical practitioners who move from one rural community in Nigeria to another diagnosing disease using a digital thermometer and stethoscope before selling their herbal drugs to the patients. Are their diagnosis correct or just a deception? This reports looks at three cases of mobile doctors ‘ diagnosis of patients in rural southern Nigeria.
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spelling pubmed-42198012014-11-05 Mobile “doctors” and their medical diagnosis in rural Southern Nigeria. Truth or deception? A public health case report Umeh, Chukwuemeka Anthony Onyi, Stella Chioma Ahaneku, Hycienth Peterson Pan Afr Med J Case Report Mobile “doctors” are traditional herbal medical practitioners who move from one rural community in Nigeria to another diagnosing disease using a digital thermometer and stethoscope before selling their herbal drugs to the patients. Are their diagnosis correct or just a deception? This reports looks at three cases of mobile doctors ‘ diagnosis of patients in rural southern Nigeria. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4219801/ /pubmed/25374647 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.17.148.3777 Text en © Chukwuemeka Anthony Umeh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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