A PSA
A study done in Scotland showed that most doctors have never laundered their ties, and their coats are laundered very seldom. 80% of their ties carried antibiotic resistant MRSA. Garments and clothing have been plague vectors for centuries, but that study did worry me, because it was so recently done.
If you are immuno-compromised and in the hospital, I’d leave a demand at the desk that no one wearing unnecessary clothing or superficial emblems of masculine professionalism be allowed to examine you, particularly if you are female.
I don’t want to even contemplate hospital linens.
Yeah, that’s why uk & European doctors don’t wear them. This was a whole conversation in medblr awhile back. US doctors love their coats because they carry did much, uk/eu doctors don’t wear them because of the disease thing.
Yes peecisely. After these and other studies were done, the UK banned all unnecessary jewelry and clothing from horpotals. It was a very good move
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