Choose credibility, integrity over money — Dr Evans-Anfom

Ghana’s oldest living medical practitioner, Dr Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, has advised medical doctors to choose credibility and integrity over money in the practice of the profession.

He said in the medical profession, the pocket of the doctor was not the foremost priority for practitioners but rather patriotism that would lead to saving human lives.

Speaking when the management and students of the Family Health University College Medical School paid a courtesy call on him at his residence in Accra last Thursday, the 98-year-old surgeon urged doctors to serve their country with the best of dedication.

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The group from Ghana’s premier private medical school was led by Prof. Enyonam Yao Kwawukume and Dr (Mrs) Susu Bridget Kwawukume, the President and the Co-President, respectively, of the university college.

According to a release from the university copied to the Daily Graphic, Dr Evans-Anfom shared his experience with the medical students.

He asked them to learn from their seniors when they passed out into the world of work

 "Be humble to learn and not to try knowing everything," the nonagenarian, who has also been a physician, scholar, university administrator and public servant, told the students.

He asked them to pay serious attention to their studies because medical training had no room for laziness.

Association

Turning to the Family Health Medical School, he commended Prof. Kwawukume and his team for the great work they were doing.

Dr Evans-Anfom disclosed that he happened to attend school with one of the brilliant uncles of Prof. Kwawukume and, therefore, when he realised that Prof. Kwawukume had established a medical school, he said to himself that students of the medical school were blessed.

Good managers

Describing doctors as good managers, he said they must accept that they could also do well in other sectors of endeavour.

He mentioned how he, after practising medicine, ended up as an administrator at KNUST, where he was the Vice- Chancellor from 1967 to 1973.

Commendation

Prof. Kwawukume thanked Dr Evans-Anfom for sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience with the young medical students.

He assured him that the university and the students would apply all the pieces of advice judiciously.

The medical school made a presentation of food items and other things to Dr Evans-Anfom and his wife as a sign of appreciation and wished him more years in life.