Imagine
what a society made up of only medical doctors and lawyers will look like.
Everybody in our society today wants to be either a lawyer or a medical doctor
due to reasons best known to them. Most parents today compel their children to
study courses which most times are contrary to what the children intend studying.
The
popular saying goes – “all human beings are born equal but some grow to be more
newsworthy than others”. Our society also considers this saying in terms of
professions (law and medicine) out of the numerous others and makes them the
best professions. Some of these people give reasons that, when you study
medicine or law, you quickly get a better job as soon as you leave school; but
if you study other courses like psychology, sociology, preprimary education,
human kinetics to mention a few, you don't easily get a job after school and
then become a commercial motorcyclist; but believe you me; I know graduates
from these disciplines that some (medicine and law), who are working under
graduates from the other disciplines. If you are not destined to be great, even
if you study medicine or law, you are just wasting your time.
This
is the most reason you see some of these medical doctors vying for different
posts in government. Mr. John Ogi, who once won the award of the most
innovative lecturer in the department of Mass Communication, says and I quote:
“there are many jobs out there, and if you can't find one, then you create it
for yourself”. This means that, you must not study medicine to be employed in a
hospital but whatever course you study, you can create a job for yourself.
To
my surprise, I hear people that are not yet married saying - their first two
children will be lawyers while the remaining two will be medical doctors. Some
of these people say all these due to the fact that they pay huge amounts in
hospitals for treatment and their fellow relatives snatched their lands from
them, so they want their children to study law so that they can get back their
lands. I consider all these as ignorance.
Parents
who force their children to study courses that are contrary to the children’s choices,
should stop it because, they are causing harm not just to the children but to
the society at large. Some of these people that study medicine because they
want to enrich themselves or their parents want them to study it find it
difficult to even to do an operation because, they are not endow in the field
but rather forced themselves to be there. In terms of lawyers, this situation
gives us different kinds of layers like adjournment lawyers, charge and bare
lawyers and more.
No
human being is self sufficient; therefore, there is no profession that is self
sufficient but if you know one speak it out for the public to hear. When you
get to a hospital, you don't only see medical doctors likewise the court of
law. The services of an accountant, technician, public relations officer
circulates information, the technician helps in maintaining and operating
equipment and guiding counselor gives out advice to patients. But if everybody
studies medicine, who will carry out the other functions that a hospital will
smoothly move and if doctors are doing all these, then it means that they are
jacks of all trade and masters of none and then, you can guess what will happen
to our society. This does not only apply to medicine but also to law because
without the mass media, lawyers cannot carry out their duty of interpreting laws
effectively and the rest.
I
therefore, call on all of us to not just study any course that; I want to make
money or my father wants me to study it in order to save the society from the
challenges we are facing. I also urge parents who force their children to study
the courses that are contrary to the children's choices to read the play titled
“Sons and Daughters” by JC De Graft and then desist from such act and grant
their children the freedom of choice so that we can have a better society
tomorrow. Success depends on determination and working towards its achievement.
As a mass communication student, I am hoping to have a multi-media firm at the end
of my programme, and what if I'm called to anchor an event? Will I still go and
study medicine to be employed in a hospital? I am not dreaming but I am working
towards the achievement of my ambition but then, what about you? Is your
intention to study law after having your first degree? Think of it and make a change so that we can
have a better society tomorrow though it does not mean that these two courses
(law and medicine) are less important. If a doctor can save one soul, as a journalist, I
can also save a soul with my pen and if he can destroy one then I can call for
a war that can destroy the whole nation with just my pen so, I am proud of my
course and I expect you to be proud of yours too.
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