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‘Hygiene is two thirds of health’ Lebanese Proverb

A. ‘Hygiene’ derived from the Greek Word ‘HYGIES’ meaning Healthy, Sound.

In other words ‘Conditions & Practice’ that serve to protect or preserve ’Health’ (source- The Free Dictionary)

Hygiene to be observed both at place of work and also on a personal level.

B .Civic sense is basic ethics to be followed by the people in public.

1. Civic sense and Mobile phone etiquette

‘Switch off your phone when in scan room please ’

The big display board says in the reception For Certain clients and their relatives it is convenient to ignore this display and just do the opposite while in scan room. When the Radiologist is doing a serious study, suddenly all sorts of funny..Sometimes very loud ring tones are heard shocking the radiologist for a moment, diverting the attention.

‘Keep your voice down’

Another basic etiquette for mobile phone users. Less said better about this. In fact some clients are more interested to know whether others in the room are enjoying their loud stupid talk along with its contents.

2 .Civic Sense/Hygiene of different kind

Hygiene tissue Rolls are provided for wiping the ‘Gel’, once the scan is completed. Many times clients after wiping the gel, throw the soiled rolls on the patients couch itself or simply throw it down on the floor

... Remember..This in spite of a Clean Dustbin kept in one corner of the room which is well visible.

3. Civic Sense/Hygiene at the Romantic staircases corner

Clients using Staircase instead of Lift in the diagnostic center was quite heartening to observe giving a sense that people are more health conscious

…..but this joy is short lived since at the end of the day when you realize that the corners of the staircase is rich with pan parag stains and lots of different colored sputum. Manufacturers of Nerolac and Asian paints must be ashamed that they are not able to invent this kind of color. You have to employ a person who is willing to clean this stuff regularly.

These days no body is coming forwards to clean these human products.

4. Civic sense/ Hygiene at its best

One can simply judge the civic sense/ hygiene of a person by the way he/she uses the toilet / rest rooms.

Generally if you observe the psyche of Indians…Toilets on the Railway station, Bus Stands, in Trains, Schools, Colleges and Shopping centers…they enjoy making it unhygienic at the same time they show their expertise in making it stink very badly. The sink not only stinks, it has got varieties of stains varying from pan parag to shit to sputum.

Now coming to the point …the toilet in the center is no different from what was described above , once some of the noble clients leisurely vacate the toilet after use.

You are helpless and you have to employ at least 3 to 4 persons to keep the sanctity of the toilet intact at every 15 minute interval.

5. Civic sense/Hygiene and ‘Face Mask’

How many Radiologists wear face mask regularly while doing scanning ?

Iam sure it will be less than 1%

Many times you come across clients who are experts in coughing loudly as if they are competing with opera singers and blowing out their entire stock of Phlegm in the form of Shower/Fountain Spring on the face of poor, hapless unwary Radiologist, endangering the life with spread of dangerous infection. Now a day’s one is frightened to invite the terrible of H1 N1 swine flu virus.

6. Civic sense/Hygiene and Rhinotillexomania

Then there was this patient X When the scan was in progress, this X was busy ‘picking’ his nose ….mind you at every minute interval and sticking all the nasal secretions to the patients couch Is not this person spreading the disease to the unwary?

FDA warns of dangers of excessive nose picking go through this link

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i11297

7. Hygiene and Jewel of umbilicus.

No No No …Iam not talking at all about navel piercing and fixing of varieties of jewelry by certain modern boys and girls or its side effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_piercing

Iam talking of another jewelry known as ‘NAVAL FLUFF’ Majority of the clients (Both Sex) neither have least idea of the status of their umbilical pits nor do they care to have a look at the pit (Via Mirror) on a regular basis.

After a few years the very same clients come back with complaint of discharge from the umbilicus, for scanning. (Looks like they never clean their various body pits during bath)

I am also not going into the detail how this naval fluff gets accumulated and its various causes...

In 7 out of 10 clients you can observe, this fluffy material filling the pit of the umbilicus and even projecting out due to excess quantity .This jewelry stuff of umbilicus is also known by other names such as Navel Fluff or belly button lint.

I do not hesitate to tell the client about the unproductive asset they are stocking and the various problems they can get because of this, and then I give a small lecture about importance of personal hygiene. Some look at me with disgust!!

8. Hygiene and saga of Socks and strange ‘Kushbu’ and Fragrance

This client….. As soon as he entered the scan room, I started choking because of some bad smell as if somebody has stocked basket full of rotten meat. I started wondering from which part of his body the stinking smell is emanating. I noticed that he entered the room with socks intact and now I realized that his socks are the culprit.

When I questioned him, he said that A. he never finds time to wash his socks since he is on marketing job and that B. he is a bachelor Now what can you say or argue?

In another incidence a Lady Client came with a heavy and strong body spray/Perfume… and the fragrance remained in the room for two days much to the annoyance of other clients.

Many times one can notice strange ‘Kushboo’----- i.e. combination of heavy sweat and perfume.

9. Civic sense/Hygiene and behavioral pattern.

This person Y was behaving very funnily. Every time the Gel was applied on the abdomen….immediately he will pick up a little gel and start smelling it as if it is a petal of Rose. Just can not believe myself.

Another person Z had this nasty behavior. Before the start of the scrotal scan this person used to touch his scrotal skin and start smelling the finger. Thank God! He did not point the finger towards buttock crease.

Weirds are the ways one develops these kinds of Obsessive compulsive Disorder

Is not hygiene and civic sense pushed to back benches?

When do we realize that hygiene and civic sense are necessary for our very existence?

At what age the awareness of hygiene and civic sense starts??

Log kahte hai india me sab chalta hai

And one has to suffer silently at the cost of ones own health and also at the cost others health. (Since others think that they are maintaining healthy traditions by their obsessive compulsive disorder).

These kinds of things can happen any where in the world, not just in India

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Foreigners always feel Hygiene and Indians are pole apart.

See the irony and double standards!!

Does this not remind one of "Ulta Chor Kothwal ko daante" ("The thief scolding the magistrate in reverse")...in other words ‘The Pot Calling the Kettle Black’

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Hmm…Now time for …….some funny moments

1. UK‘s Ex prime minister Gordon Brown’s Nose picking in the British parliament,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VaP1HB7Vew 100x100]

2. Worst thing yet to come!! …picking the nose and eating too by none other than, the one and the only aged but still ROMANTICALLY energetic Mr. Silvio Berlusconi, the present Prime Minister of Italy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt7pNgfscNg

3. This guy I am going to mention is not a Nose Picker but a habitual Butt Picker. No.. I don’t mean Ladies butt picker .But the one, crazy for picking his own butt. World famous Tennis Star Ralph Nadal is not immune from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He enjoys pulling his pants out of his ass while playing in fronts of millions of tennis fans all over the world.. What an odd act!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpNw1LuHa5s&feature=related

4. This Australian guy takes the cake as far as personal hygiene is concerned. Graham Barker of Perth, Western Australia decided to enter Guinness World Records and thought of the worst possible act, i.e. collecting his own naval fluff .Since 1984 he has been doing this and in Nov 2001 ( after 17 years of Hard Work) finally made it to the Guinness Record !! Looks like he has not bathed these 17 yrs.….It appears he is still continuing his art collection. He also talks of Mr.G.K.CHESTEERTON who inspired him. He quotes him “There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people". May you be encouraged to collect unusual things!

http://www.feargod.net/fluff.html

The way things happen….The way crazy things are done I am sure….. That day is not far off when some body will create record in collection of own Human waste!! Who can stop this person? Will Guinness world record publish this also??

“Sometimes the worst evil is done by good people who do not know that they are not good." - Reinhold Niebuhr

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Adding the salt to the wound, one Common Wealth Games official, an Indian of course, said “Foreigners want certain standards in hygiene and cleanliness which may differ from our perception,”

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/CWG-Day-after-India-tells-Bhanot-Whats-filthy-for-Fennell-is-filthy-for-us/articleshow/6610726.cms

Latest news says India is at the bottom of hygiene as far as world standards are concerned

http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-66137.html