Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Contact precautions: A very personal view
The latest issue of the Annals of Family Medicine has an interesting essay, "Losing Touch in the Era of Superbugs," by a physician who struggles with contact precautions. Recently hospitalized with a MRSA infection, he has a new fear of becoming infected at work, yet realizes how important human touch is in the practice of medicine. It's a great reminder of how contact precautions interferes with providing the most humane care to our patients. You can read the full text of the essay here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
OSHA! OSHA! OSHA!
In many parts of the country, as rates of COVID-19 are declining and vaccination coverage is increasing (albeit with substantial variati...
-
In many parts of the country, as rates of COVID-19 are declining and vaccination coverage is increasing (albeit with substantial variati... -
This is a guest post by Jorge Salinas, MD, Hospital Epidemiologist at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics. There is virtually no...
-
I’m surprised that we can’t stop arguing about the modes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, despite the fact that most experts (including our frie...
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for submitting your comment to the Controversies blog. To reduce spam, all comments will be reviewed by the blog moderator prior to publishing. However, all legitimate comments will be published, whether they agree with or oppose the content of the post.