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ah yes...and then there is the research on neck ties being the greatest
carriers of germs.  i think of it every time my sinus-god leans
benevolently over me, necktie draping across us both, to do endoscopy.  but
then, who would dare to mess with the sinus-god who is no longer taking new
patients?  an undiscussed hard part of being a patient is building
relationships with one's doc's....


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Martin Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/hospitals-struggle-to-get-workers-to-wash-their-hands.html?pagewanted=all
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> It is sobering to what lengths we have to go to get the small percentage of
> medical workers (mostly doctors, it seems) to thoroughly wash their hands
> to help stop the transmission of resistant stains of bacteria (or resistant
> strains to be) in hospitals.
>
> In the 19 century child birth fever was a killer of new borne babies and
> their others. A Dr Ignaz Philipp *Semmelweis*  at great political effort
> put bowls of carbolic acid (a potent disinfectant ) outside of every room
> in the maternity ward. Child birth fever deaths plummeted to near zero as
> all personnel were forced to wash their hands with it. However, he lost the
> battle and the bowls were removed (doctors were insulted that they were
> perceived as carriers of the "germs") and deaths rode to previous highs.
> The personnel who go to lengths to avoid the cameras remind me of this.
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> Martin
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