What will it take to get medical professionals to wash their filthy, germ-infested hands before leaving one patient to go to another? This isn’t new, of course. It’s been going on since the middle of the 19th century.
Ignaz Semmelweis in 1847 made the connection, and was pilloried. Joseph Lister, in the mid-1860s, was intelligent enough to make a similar connection. Unfortunately, North America wasn’t having any of that at the time.
They still aren’t.
McGill University Health Centre network asked staff at its various hospitals about their handwashing habits last year.
One in four doctors in some wards reported washing their hands between patients, the audit found. The best rates were seen in the intensive care units, where 60 per cent of doctors washed up between patients. -cbcnews.ca
And even when some businesses try to enforce a hand-washing edict in British Columbia, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal forces employees not to wash their hands.
Please continue reading after you have finished gagging and upon digesting that little morsel.
For those of you who like to see your doctor all dressed up and looking professional in white lab coat and tie, take a look at this.
Now then, go back to bed, take two aspirin and call someone who loves you in the morning. Oh, and write your will if you call a doctor.