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Since nurses & doctors work with so many patients, it's very easy for them to carry someone else's disease to another room with a weaker immune system.
by veemjeem 14y ago
Since nurses & doctors work with so many patients, it's very easy for them to carry someone else's disease to another room with a weaker immune system.
- saraid216 14y agoYup. And they wash their hands before and after to avoid cross-contamination with people outside the hospital. This is the same reason cooks are supposed to be careful about doing this as well: if they contaminate the food, that's a vector for spreading stuff. It simply matters a little less because the actual process of cooking has sanitation purposes.
- rdl 14y agoIt's also that there are people in hospitals who are exceptionally sick, too. I was always a lot less worried in a trauma-focused hospital than in local clinics which served local nationals with a variety of illnesses and huge numbers of parasites.