As with many things in medicine, just because we can’t prove it doesn’t mean it’s not true. It’s hard to do randomized double-blind controlled trials with something like this. But I’m a med student and I can look down at my sleeve and see it’s dirty, I can look down at my tie and see it’s dirty.
Pondering vexing issues in infection prevention and control
Friday, June 12, 2009
Quote of the day
From Peter Ragusa, a new medical graduate from the University of Minnesota, in the Wall Street Journal Health Blog, on the resolution before the AMA House of Delegates to urge physicians to give up their white coats:
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