Galvanic Cell in your mouth?

I had a dental treatment recently, when I was treated by a Hungarian dentist here in the UK, under NHS. My tooth unfortunately was so badly hurt by a previous filling, that my dentist found the only way to fill it is to use Gold-inlay.

However as I unfortunately have many amalgam fillings in my teeth, she did not advise the gold-inlay, because of the Galvanic Cell Effect.

I don't want to bore you with details, but please read the following, and you will be suprised:

http://www.a5star.co.uk/gold-amalgam.htm

She also told me, NHS only supports gold-inlay, and they do not support the colored-ones, and also do not support changing old amalgam fillings to "white" fillings.

Therefore NHS forces dentists to create galvanic cell effects in their patients mouth, causing them to suffer of consequences in the future.

She told me I would be surprised how many people are with this combination without knowing about their condition.

Ridiculous

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My fiancée was working in a shift a couple of days ago, when she realized that one of the old lady hallucinating. She reported to a "senior" colleague as per the procedure.

1. The "senior" did not know the word hallucinating

2. Then when others explained it to her, she went to the lady, and showed his hands, thumbs up, and asking her: - Are you ok?

3. She then smiled back, and showed thumbs-up, and answered: - Yes, I am alright.

4. My fiancée did not agree, but could not do anything else, she had written everything properly in the care book of the old lady

5. Later on that night, the lady'd condition turned worse, she became unconscious and they had to call ambulance

6. Ambulance took her to the hospital where they had diagnosed she was dehydrated, and the first sign of that was the hallucination.

First Aid

My fiancée had a first aid training yesterday at the elderly home. All of the staff had to be there.

The trainer was a nice guy, but the training itself was not that great.

She came home yesterday and began to complain about the whole training. As she studied to be a general nurse in the secondary school, and she has a degree as a physiotherapist, I can say, she has quite good skills and experience in First Aid.

Training material:

Question: - What do

you do, and how do you recognize a hip bone fracture?

Fiancée answer (who is a physiotherapist): - You can recognize the fracture the easiest way by inspecting how the patient hold his/her leg. If it turned/rotated to any directions which are not normal (typical sign), you can be sure about the fracture

Trainer's answer: - You have to grab the leg and move around, and you will hear a disturbing "CRACKING" noise which will be so disturbing, that you will know, this is a fracture. (Of course and in order to get this conclusion, torture the patient)

Then later on they "learned" how to do CPR. Of course, the trainer did not explain, only showed, and the only "feedback" if you did it correctly was the clicking noise coming from the CPR Doll. Which noise obviously will not be present when they have to do real CPR, but who cares? They all signed the paper, they had been trained about it. Everything was showed, but not explained. And without explanation, the whole thing does not worth anything.

When you do a CPR, you HAVE to use proper pose of your hands (straight hands, not bended elbows in order to give the best pressure, etc), and you have to measure on the chest of the body quickly where you have to push. (This is being taught to anyone who wants to get a driving license in Hungary)

Without telling these information to your trainees, the whole training will be useless. My fiancée saw lots of person from the training, when they did the exercise they almost pushed the poor CPR Doll's belly, or shoulder, etc. :)

Also her colleagues did not understand, why they can not do CPR on a person laying on a bed. (Obviously Dr. Conrad Murrey did not understand it either, as he performed CPR incorrectly on Michael Jackson.)

The trainer did not know, that having a stroke can be caused by lots of things, not only by having the arteries clogged. (Example, an arterial bleeding in the brain can cause stroke too) - and I am not a doctor, and still know it.

Also he mentioned, that stroke can cause several behavior and lifestyle changes at the patients. (This is not a fiction, this is a medical fact)

He told a story, when a patient who suffered of stroke started to speak a foreign language he did not know before to his roommate in an elderly home. (This is bullsh*t, as having a stroke will not cause you miraculously learn a foreign language out of the sudden. It can cause, that you will suddenly remember all the french words you learnt at school, but you WILL NOT SPEAK FOREIGN WORDS YOU DID NOT KNOW BEFORE THAT IS FOR SURE)

Of course the staff believed him, and found the whole story marvelous.

So at the end, training had been given, all people signed it, and now officially they are ready to provide proper first aid, and proper CPR to anyone in need. The big question, what happens if these people make mistakes? Other people might die. Simple as that.

Shouldn't we give a more specific and more detailed training to people who are working with the elderlies?

Uniforms

I would be happy if someone who works in Health Care (NHS), would comment my future posts, as I will have many questions I would need answers for.

Today I wanna talk about the dresses, work uniforms. Everywhere in the world, nurses, doctors have uniforms (at leash should have)

This is how a regular day goes for a nurse in Hungary. Wakes up, getting ready, dressing up to normal clothes. Travels to the hospital by public transport, or car, etc. Arriving to the hospital. Goes to the dressing rooms. Change his/her dress to the hospital uniform. Work starts.

And now let's see how it goes in the UK. Wakes up, getting ready, dressing up to hospital uniform. Travels to Hospital by public transport, or car, etc. Arriving to the hospital. Starts working.

What is wrong in the second example? What do you think?

Hospitals HAS to be totally CLEAN places. Ideally they should be steril. I said ideally, as it is not possible. To maintain certain cleanness, and healthy enviroment, you must NOT go to work in your uniform. Why not?

Imagine the fact, you dress up in your uniform at home. Get in the car, or get in the public transport. You touch many places, expose your clothes to a lot of different bacteria, bugs, which can easily get stuck on your clothes. Then you go in the hospital, and stand next to a sick/wounded/operated people, and all the bugs you are carrying with you, can have direct access to wounds, and therefore to the bloodflow of a sick person. While if you change your uniform only at the hospital, it would be cleaner, and your clothes would not have been exposed to any bacteria/virus, etc.

And as this is a two way street, you can not only carry bugs into the hospital from public transport, but also you can spread any bug might have jumped on your uniform during your working hours, to the general public.

Hospitals in Hungary recognised this already, therefore they provide laundry service for all the uniforms, so if you don't want, you don't even have to take it home to wash/dry/iron.

In the UK, hippocracy is all around. Nurses are attaching their "nurse wristwatch" on their uniform, for Safety reasons (and health reasons), but on the other hand, they travel through the city in their uniforms. And noone, I mean NOONE thinks/talks about it. This is normal.

Just as MRSA.

If you look at the regular GPs. How many of them are wearing uniforms? This would be NONE!

I have met several GPs already, none of them was wearing uniforms. Just normals clothes. Sorry to say, but when some works in health care, please wear a bloody uniform. If the GP does a gynecological examination, the MINIMUM is wearing a uniform. This is just common sense. Nothing else. If someone can not understand this, well, I have to think that person has serious shortcomings in Health and Safety.

Hungary is a third world country in improvement if we compare it to the UK. But still, several things are way much better, and more efficient than in the UK everybody proud of.

Just to give some info, visit this Yahoo Question/Answer topic: Uniforms

First Steps

Well, first things first. We are hungarians. Not British. Live in the uk for a couple years now. Long enough to know this country quite well. Long enough to get involved in many different situations. 

I can say I start to see how this country works as a whole. And I am not impressed. 

Me and my fiancee, live in Anglia, I work in IT, she works in Home Care/ Residental Homes.

As regular EU citizens, we live here, pay taxes here, plan our future here, spend our salary here.

Don't get me wrong, I still believe the quality of life in the UK is better than in Hungary right now. I just don't believe "everything is better".

In the upcoming posts, you will hear about many things, many things are not working well, or not working at all in the UK. I will try to give you a personal view. An outsider's view, what you can not have as a british people. 

If you are interested, please read along.