The Epitome of Ignorance and Arrogance Imagine this scene. Dr. Morgan, a general dentist with a practice in Maintown USA, is at a party and he asks Mrs. Jones, "How are you doing? I heard that you have recently been hospitalized." Mrs. Jones replies, "Yes, I have recently suffered chest pain and my cardiologist says I have three blockages in my arteries." Dr. Morgan responds, "Well I hear that your cardiologist is an excellent doctor and I wish you the best." Wouldn't you think it is strange if Dr. Morgan did not make the above reply, but instead said this instead? "Well, Mrs. Jones, I don't believe a thing that you said! I don't believe that there is such a thing as blockages in the arteries to the heart. Your doctor must be a charlatan. There has never been any research to support the idea of clogs in arteries. Get on the American Dental Association's website and find out all you need to know about medical conditions of the body. There you will find the truth. We have the science." Wouldn't you think this dentist is the epitome of ignorance and arrogance for telling a patient that had been DIAGNOSED by a medical doctor as having blockages in her arteries that there is NO SUCH THING as blockages in her arteries? And on top of that she is to believe what this dentist says because the ADA has the science and says so? I have experienced this scene several times. I was standing in line at the Roanoke SAM'S CLUB with my anti mercury sweatshirt on. Both sides of the shirt had a skull and crossbones poison sign and a "Hg" sign with a slash mark through it. The words on the front said, "Do you know your silver fillings are 50% Mercury?" The back of the shirt said, "Say No to Silver Amalgam Dental Fillings." Standing right behind me in line was one of those ignorant and arrogant fellows I was talking about earlier. He asked, "Where did you get that shirt?" I replied, "Oh, I had it designed myself. Are you a dentist?" He answered, "Yes." I continued, "My Roanoke dentist mercury poisoned me when he drilled into a silver filling in 2001 and I breathed the vapor and it went into my brain." His only reply was the automatic robotic response learned through the ADA propaganda machine, "I don't believe it! You can't be poisoned from silver filings. A few people have only had an allergic reaction to them." I went on to explain the circumstances surrounding my poisoning. "I was poisoned because I had been on prednisone and it lowered my immune system. It made me more susceptible to becoming mercury poisoned." The dentist responded, "I treat people all the time who are using prednisone." "Yes, I know." He finally did make one concession, "Well you must be one in a million." I disagreed with him, "No, there are many of us who are mercury poisoned." I continued on with the pain I had suffered and how hard it was to find proper medical help. As he was leaving I raised my voice to ask, "Doctor, what is your name?" He just shrugged his shoulders as he walked through the exit. He wouldn't tell me his name. What did he have to hide? Now is that the way a friendly dentist should act? Why didn't he invite me to become his patient? I thought all dentists were interested in acquiring new patients! Of course there is never an apology for their profession. No mercury using dentist ever says, "I am so sorry for what has happened to you." No mercury using dentist ever says to a poisoned person, "I am going to take a another look at my use of amalgam." Why do mercury using dentists always respond, "I don't believe it!" Isn't it arrogant when a lady stands in a dentist's face and tells him that she is poisoned for the dentist to say to her that he doesn't believe it? What gives the dentist the right to question the diagnosis of a medical doctor who diagnoses the patient as toxic? Recently I was at my health club complaining because the sauna had broken down again. I explained that the reason I had joined to club was for the express purpose of using the sauna to sweat mercury out of my body. As I was explaining the perils of mercury toxicity to the attendant, another health club member was standing there saying, "I don't believe it! I am a pre med student and there is no such thing as mercury being absorbed into the body." I am very slow at responses since mercury has slowed down my thinking processes, and I could see it was no use to argue with such a closed mind. I wonder now, why are they warning people about mercury in fish if it is impossible for a body to absorb mercury? I did send him a parting remark, "It is people like you that keep people from getting well." I pity the patients that will be seeing this to-be- doctor of the future. Once again, what arrogance that a pre med student would say to my face, "I don't believe you are mercury poisoned. The doctor you went to must be a fraud." I would never presume to say to an individual, "You are not sick. Your doctor must be a fraud." The only diagnosis that dentists are in denial about is mercury toxicity from their dental products. A person can even be poisoned from fish, but not from dental products. All other diseases are acceptable to them, unless of course, a person says, they are caused by the dentists and his products. Isn't it interesting that the MS Society quotes the ADA as proof that mercury doesn't contribute to MS, and then the ADA quotes the MS Society as proof that mercury doesn't contribute to MS? That sounds to me like the MS Society and the ADA are both patting each other on their decrepit backs. They must be singing in unison, "You lie for me and I'll lie for you!" So mercury poisoning from dental products is not an acceptable disease. After all, the "ADA, and now the MS Society says so!" What arrogrance! On my very first visit to my alternative doctor, I was very impressed with his honesty. He explained to me how when he was first a doctor he was convinced he had all the answers and was very arrogant. He told me that as he treated patients and they didn't always respond as he had thought they should that he began to examine the way he practiced medicine. It was then that he realized that he did not know everything and that he was still learning. At that point he laid down his arrogance and began to look at alternative medicine in conjunction with his practice of traditional medicine. He told me he did not have all the answers to my condition, but he would work with me to help me get better. It was so refreshing to meet an MD that was not arrogant. Back to the top Back to Mercury Poisoned main page © 2004 by Marie Flowers.