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A long, long time ago, I was a male nurse in intensive and trauma care. Around the time, mid to end 90's, that aroma therapy mumbo jumbo began to spread among n
by Borrible 5y ago
A long, long time ago, I was a male nurse in intensive and trauma care.
Around the time, mid to end 90's, that aroma therapy mumbo jumbo began to spread among nurses.
We even had one that couldn't stand the smell of rotting flesh on some poor souls trapped in intensive care with heavily infected wounds.
I loved the smell of an infected thorax cavity after partial lung resection in the morning.
It smelled of hell.
Which really wasn't that pleasant I assure you.
That nurse even installed magic trees and lavender bags.
Which I associate till this day with decay.
Yes, it was around the time 'Seven' had its theatrical release, but she didn't knew the film.
I left the healthcare trenches around 2000, but I see, not much changed.
Still, enough room for nosocomial infection vectors:
https://www.contagionlive.com/view/aromatherapy-in-health-care-settings-source-of-drug-resistant-bacterial-infections https://www.contagionlive.com/view/aromatherapy-in-health-ca...
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI just feel like smells intended to cover up bad smells make you associate them with each other. I'm sure that bathroom sprays for example are its own category not used elsewhere, to avoid the association. I'd prefer to smell bleach / chlorine when entering a bathroom over a shitty spray myself.