Secrets of your trade.

If you work in the royal household or Royalty protection you can apply to sit in the Queens box at the Royal Albert hall and watch a show for £5 each.
Ive seen 2 different Cirque De Soleils's and La Boheme.

The box is really nothing special.

Another who thinks it’s lovely about the health professionals treatment of the dying.

This is nothing in comparison to the hands on care that has been described, but my sister is a doctor. Whenever she loses a patient, she will write in the medical notes:

“And sadly she then succumbed to her illness (or whatever). Rest in Peace, Sandra Jane Johnson”.

Such a small thing but it stuck with me. It will be the last entry ever made on those records, the end of that person’s story. I think it’s nice that this is respected and marked.

I understand not all doctors do that but most will write something along those lines, “may she rest in peace” or some such.

*not necessarily that should say

Fantastic thread!

I’m a barrister and I agree with PP about Secret Barrister’s book to show the issues in the criminal system. But the family system is just as bad. Not fit for purpose.

I work in employment tribunals and you don’t need any qualifications to be an advocate there. Frequently people without any legal qualifications will charge clients to represent them in tribunals - employment law consultants, employment law advocates etc. And yes, a few of them are very good. Some of them are appalling. This seems worse in London where I’ve recently started practising.

At least in employment tribunals the judge knows something about employment law. Now necessarily so in courts. A judge, particularly a part time judge, is usually a good lawyer in their own field but judges often hear cases which are outside their area of expertise. So a civil lawyer who has never been inside a criminal court in their career can get appointed as a part time judge and suddenly start hearing jury trials with only 5 days training. Same in family cases, including care cases where care and placement (adoption) orders can be made.

Obviously they get experience on the job but never assume the judge knows very much at all about the area of law at hand. They might not.

Also, there is no such thing as a case without risk. If you are planning to litigate and your solicitor is only giving you good news, change solicitor. Far better to find out from them and make an informed decision whether to proceed than to find out all of the problems with your case in court - and yes, I frequently represent clients who I meet for the first time on the day of the hearing who have not been warned what might very realistically happen.

I had a few things to say about the HR posts a few pages back but can’t remember now!!

I work with Type 2 diabetics helping them to manage and reverse their disease. Most don't realise that it's possible to do this because all they ever hear from doctors is that it's a progressive disease.

It's not. It's a lifestyle choice and it can be undone quickly with fairly dramatic results. I've seen insulin dependent Type 2s come off insulin in 2 to 3 days. It's magic.

Dieticians (who are bound to "prescriptive" methods of managing disease) are required to recommend 120g of carbohydrate a day - a level guaranteed to keep a Type 2 in the diabetic zone.

There is no such thing as essential carbohydrate. Your liver makes glucose all day, every day. You can literally cut out carbohydrate 100% and suffer no ill effects after withdrawal. You cannot live without fat and protein.

Everything we have been taught about human nutrition over the last 50 years is dangerously wrong. If eat less, move more worked there would be no obesity and chronic metabolic diseases like Type 2.

@Dinosforall tell him thanks from me and my team. They are so awesome & should get the CS team excellence award every year. Beautifully written, succinct, clear, unbiased and unambiguous reports. I can't say how much time and effort they save us - especially as we are a policy by headline part of the CS. It is essential we avoid unintended consequences & we can only do this if we are sighted on all the relevant policy & legislation as well as it's provenance.

Fellow NICHE user here in South Wales 👋🏻

Another ex police officer here;

We generally know when you are lying to us

Black or dark humour is used a lot to relieve the pressure or stop us having embarrassing emotions!

We have heard it all before-in particular ‘you should be out catching burglars’ or ‘I pay your wages’ 🙄

We are allowed to stop and eat, preferably without Joe Public making sly comments

We also never eat food given to us by members of public, unless sealed in an emergency situation

I always got super hungry after dealing with dead bodies. Might be just me though!

We can’t just walk off at the end of a shift if we haven’t finished dealing with a prisoner or case file-although no OT has put a stop to that somewhat, I have worked 26 hours in a row before

We get sick of the public (and courts) never supporting us, sometimes though they surprise you in a good way

‘Extra’ police on the streets in an emergency situation like when a bomb has gone off actually means officers have been bought out onto the streets from their office based jobs or had their rest days cancelled

When the public says “there’s not enough police on the streets” we agree with you

I never sit on a train or in a room with my back to the door and always look for an escape route

the BBC do not have a back up building at all for people to go to.

My DH was head of security for buildings,people and assets until very recently for the bbc.

I work with people with dementia in their own homes, it's not a secret as such but we will tell your mum/dad/aunt/uncle whatever they need to hear to get them to take their medication or to get them up and dressed. Nothing malicious of course but if they need to hear that Dr X (who hasn't practiced in 20 years) asked me to specifically give them this tablet then that's what I will tell them.
We also tell them all our issues and home life stuff, they listen and give safe advice and then forget very quickly afterwards.

Nothing makes my day more than someone who I see regularly eventually remembering me in Simone capacity even if it's 'the lady threat knits' it touches my soul like nothing else.

I heavily judge families that will be in a house worth a loved one but will still expect me to do everything, from missing a cup of tea to basic personal care, I appreciate people can't always care for their loved ones in the way I do but I'm sure they can make their parents a cup of tea once in a while.

Also, a more controversial one. Some times people are arseholes, regardless of having dementia, they weren't nice before they got it, they aren't that nice now, there is a misguided thought that people become sweet, innocent and somewhat helpless when dementia grips them and it's just not the case. I've had people attack me, spit at me, swear at me and say incredibly cruel and and personal things. On the flip side, some of the loveliest people I have met have been clients I have worked with and it breaks my heart to lose them even though it's often the best thing for them I grieve hard.

Ida I understand what you mean and that makes sense. my wonderful relative was a bit like it, she had a hard life, but she went one to just get on with it, she succumbed to it and wallowed in it, was always moaning about how her xxx felt and how her xxx felt but there was nothing physically wrong so she couldn’t be helped and she should of taken another route to find out what was wrong with her. She also had cronic emphysema and coughed constantly, she used a nebuliser multiple times a day. She smoked like a trooper tho and wouldn’t give up her fags for her nerves, but she would of lived a better life if she gave them up?! The doctors couldn’t do anything for that.
Your husband sounds like a good man.

Teeth whitening toothpaste isnt illegal but the dentist is on about whiteninv treatments you can buy/have done

Im interested how the vet who registered knew about the thread x

Thank you Martha'sGinYard and Smotheroffive. It hadn't even occured to me that the poster of the comment about vets killing animals may be a troll. I guess that shows how naive I am and I perhaps should just have ignored the post! But I really wanted to stand up for my profession and reassure pet owners that we don't all think or talk that way.

That being said, it is true to say that we do make inappropriate jokes at times - to help us get through those laugh or cry moments. But that phrase used by the PP is not something I've heard or come across. Of course life is rarely black and white and I am not saying it doesn't ever happen....but it's not common. At least not in my experience.

I don't understand SLS?! Can you give an example. It sounds as if someone is suffering somehow because of awful circumstances and come to GP for help, there are ways of supporting that person with drugs or talking therapy, referrals for

Oh also he worked at the military hospital in Germany where occasionally the President would fly in to visit the recovering troops and give out medals. All the staff would try to flee the building if at all possible because if you were still there when when the President arrived you were on total lockdown and of course couldn’t leave until he did, which could be hours into the evening with no overtime.

Oh and I just saw the post about doctors taking drugs. When DH started his residency (hospital training) in America the University Hospital had a posh dinner for all the new doctors and their significant others. It didn’t take long to get to the point of why we were gathered there, they gave us a presentation - with very graphic slides - of how doctors have a high rate of drug abuse and what to look for as close family members! There was a horrible slide of a young doctor who had been found dead from an overdose in a hospital supplies cupboard.

Part of the presentation was by the wife of a doctor who became an alcoholic and how it destroyed their family.

So the faculty was encouraging doctors to find other ways to cope with stress and families to step in if they saw danger signs. It was a very unexpected eye opener. This was over 20 years ago now.

I'm guessing everyone's had a 'go' at the entonox??!!

I'm a teacher. I absolutely adore the teenagers I teach. I get particularly attached to form groups and when I'm phoning you for the third time in two weeks it is because I'm desperately hoping that nagging will get Emma to do enough work to see her through years 9 and 10 so when she gains some maturity in year 11 she isn't too far behind. Teachers who don't give a stuff simply don't contact home.

More generally, teachers HATE bullying and would mostly love to be able to remove the bully so the victim can enjoy school unimpaired. In front of parents we are professional and refuse to be drawn on sanctions and have to fall back on our legal and moral obligation to ensure the bully gets an education. But we simply do care about the victim and (particularly ordinary teachers) are hampered by our employers policies and left with our hand tied. It is by far the hardest part of my job - and on the odd occasion an older, nasty teenager has been picking on a younger, vulnerable member of my form I have made full use of the staff room for a huge vent of frustration and anger at being unable to protect the child in my care. The vast majority of staff will do everything we can to keep victims of bullying safe (physically and emotionally).

Final trade secret is backing up a point made earlier - most schools I've worked in are filled with gossip. Mostly about each other, but I've come across some shocking examples about parents too. I recently started in a new school and had to pull up a member of slt who tried to pass of a child's misbehaviours as "well there is a lot of children in that household". I pointedly said that I had 5 siblings and I didn't understand the connection - he backtracked pretty quickly.

Exact amounts of any drug are detailed very specifically on patient notes, each specific.amount logged from stock and stockstocks of.drugs carefully monitored. How could staff take drugs? Unless it's gas form?

There's certainly a.lot of chatter around amalgam fillings and the toxicity of heavy metals/illness, including depression.

A quote from DD 'There is no such thing as "left over drugs"'

I once heard from a senior member of hospital staff that it was quite common for surgeons and other theatre doctors to shoot up with the leftover drugs after performing surgery. Anyone able to verify this?

I cant comment on how things may have happened in the past, but it doesnt happen now! DD is a an ODP and gets asked this a lot!

@Unescorted ha, my DH is in that team and he loves his job