Thus, it is incontrovertible that NARD has been the arrowhead of most of the gains made by the medical profession in the last four decades. Sadly, some of these struggles have had to be prosecuted with industrial actions. Paradoxically, in as much as government hates to hear the word "strike", it remains the language government understands most and often responds to in Nigeria. This is rather unfortunate as no doctor likes to abandon his patients, but the quest for self-survival and preservation usually leaves him with no other option. Interestingly, the Hippocratic Oath has been revised in recent times to accommodate the fact that the physician needs to also take care of himself to enable him to attend to others. Right from inception in the late seventies, NARD had picked up the gauntlet, and one of the earliest struggles was the issue of call allowance, which the Alhaji Shehu Shagari's civilian government eventually approved. NARD and NMA went on a collision course with the succeeding military regime of General Muhammadu Buhari over improvement in hospital facilities, overseas clinical attachment for her members and sundry welfare issues, and the military junta proscribed both associations. Leaders of the association had to take cover for their dear lives, and this period remains one of the darkest moments in the profession as it is believed this might have fueled the brain drain of the eighties. After the Babangida regime lifted her proscription, NARD resumed from where it stopped and embarked on a National strike in late 1992, and this led to the first-ever review of the old Medical Salary Scale (MSS). It is pertinent to note that NMA had championed the negotiations for the new salary scale CONMESS, it was a NARD strike of April 2010 that eventually led to it is implementation. 2014 will remain a year to remember in the annals of medical unionism as NARD and NMA both went on strike again in July. The demands were improved facilities, relativity, universal health coverage, amidst other things. Collateral damage from this strike was the suspension of residency training by the Jonathan administration in a bid to force the almost two-month strike at the peak of the Ebola crisis to end. More recently, NARD advocated and fought to ensure the residency training act was passed into law by the parliament and subsequently assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari. She also followed up to