TRIBUTES TO OUR DISTINGUISHED MEMBER DR OLUSEGUN GEORGE FROM MENS' CHRISTIAN CIRCLE, ALL SAINTS' CHURCH YABA, LAGOS.
Created by Peter 3 years agoTRIBUTE FROM AN ELDERLY PATIENT
I met the late Dr. Segun George some five or six years ago when my daughter was admitted in his clinic for post-operative confinement.
The late doctor and my daughter’s family worshiped in the same All Saints’ Church at Yaba. My wife and I had visited our daughter and were introduced to him during his ward round. His natural deep and comforting smile, plus his smooth welcoming air was not lost on us. When my wife had a health issue some time later, we were unanimous in choosing him and his clinic for her medicare. When we reported, he refused to register my wife as a patient, he said we were family friends. And so it was all through the approximately two years that the relationship lasted. He never billed us for consultancy fees, only for naturopathic drugs which he ordered for us.
When my wife passed on a little over two years ago and I suffered an attack of stroke, I managed to whisper to my son to take me to Gr. George. God used him and his team to almost literally drag me from death. He spent two days to stabilize me before he referred me to LASUTH. When the teaching hospital discharged me after five days to continue as an outpatient Dr. George paid me a home visit, rare these days, and assured me I would walk in two months.
That was the end of March, 2018. He continued my Medicare while another specialist handled my physio therapy. He continued my care till his last unexpected breath courtesy of covid 19. Indeed he had sent me a prescription from his isolation ward only a fortnight ago and it was a shock to learn that he had been felled by the hazard of the occupation he had practiced for over 44 years.
He had predicted I would walk in two months on 1st April, 2018. Two months later on 27th May same year, I limped from my car into the church for my late wife’s outing service. Dr. George was to me an epitome of what a practicing physician should be - decent, knowledgeable in his chosen field, unassuming, jovial, always ready to help and on and on.
He would have been 70 on 3rd August. I will be 80 on 26th August and we had been planning our respective celebrations together, before Corona virus interfered.
Well, my name sake, if we humans can still recognize one another on the other side of the curtain and if the old Latin phrase “ Vox populi un, Dei (the voice of the people is the voice of God) is still true then we shall see when we join you, RESTING IN THE BOSOM OF THE LORD. Adieu.
Daddy “Segun Omikorede
I met the late Dr. Segun George some five or six years ago when my daughter was admitted in his clinic for post-operative confinement.
The late doctor and my daughter’s family worshiped in the same All Saints’ Church at Yaba. My wife and I had visited our daughter and were introduced to him during his ward round. His natural deep and comforting smile, plus his smooth welcoming air was not lost on us. When my wife had a health issue some time later, we were unanimous in choosing him and his clinic for her medicare. When we reported, he refused to register my wife as a patient, he said we were family friends. And so it was all through the approximately two years that the relationship lasted. He never billed us for consultancy fees, only for naturopathic drugs which he ordered for us.
When my wife passed on a little over two years ago and I suffered an attack of stroke, I managed to whisper to my son to take me to Gr. George. God used him and his team to almost literally drag me from death. He spent two days to stabilize me before he referred me to LASUTH. When the teaching hospital discharged me after five days to continue as an outpatient Dr. George paid me a home visit, rare these days, and assured me I would walk in two months.
That was the end of March, 2018. He continued my Medicare while another specialist handled my physio therapy. He continued my care till his last unexpected breath courtesy of covid 19. Indeed he had sent me a prescription from his isolation ward only a fortnight ago and it was a shock to learn that he had been felled by the hazard of the occupation he had practiced for over 44 years.
He had predicted I would walk in two months on 1st April, 2018. Two months later on 27th May same year, I limped from my car into the church for my late wife’s outing service. Dr. George was to me an epitome of what a practicing physician should be - decent, knowledgeable in his chosen field, unassuming, jovial, always ready to help and on and on.
He would have been 70 on 3rd August. I will be 80 on 26th August and we had been planning our respective celebrations together, before Corona virus interfered.
Well, my name sake, if we humans can still recognize one another on the other side of the curtain and if the old Latin phrase “ Vox populi un, Dei (the voice of the people is the voice of God) is still true then we shall see when we join you, RESTING IN THE BOSOM OF THE LORD. Adieu.
Daddy “Segun Omikorede
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