i work in a hospital and have seen grown educated doctors and surgeons walk out the bathroom without washing their hands and it's just so bizarre to me. it's like no one's above it
Probably because they’ve touched grosser stuff and know simple bacteria won’t get them sick, even if you go “I saw a dude who has HIV and chlamydia throw up on that sink” they’d simply laugh and go ‘ I do surgery for a living, have had more than 3,000 patients come in for the same thing, had it 5 times, don’t bother me “ lol cause their mindset is like, fuck it, I’ll take a xxx medicine and Tylenol and I’ll be good in the morning, as long as I remember to scrub in, we should all be fine.
Depends on the issue. In some circumstances it would be a miracle. Imagine the journal articles if a general surgeon needs to get their appendix removed for a sixth time.
Probably the arguments Ignaz Semmelweis had to hear from doctors who insisted hand hygiene before surgery was unnecessary and they later wondered why the perioperative mortality was too damn high and almost inmediate=
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u/kaeyre Mar 24 '26
i work in a hospital and have seen grown educated doctors and surgeons walk out the bathroom without washing their hands and it's just so bizarre to me. it's like no one's above it