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Tie Ban For Doctors To Stop Spread Of MRSA (UK)
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12-18-2006 | Alex Berry

Posted on 12/17/2006 8:35:48 PM PST by blam

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1 posted on 12/17/2006 8:35:50 PM PST by blam
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That's it! I'm quiting medical school. No tie, no deal! ;D


2 posted on 12/17/2006 8:38:13 PM PST by Soothesayer (Birth is murder!)
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wow. This stuff is spreading like wildfire all over the US too. I read about a number of cases in the Pacific Northwest and in the South. This stuff is REALLY scary


3 posted on 12/17/2006 8:41:28 PM PST by ChurtleDawg (kill em all)
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Why just ties and other "superfluous clothing"? If a tie can carry the bug, a pair of pants probably can, too. Take 'em off. Oh, and you lady docs...


4 posted on 12/17/2006 8:41:45 PM PST by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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I'm thinking it's because people don't normally wash ties in the laundry, where pants/shirts atleast get that.


5 posted on 12/17/2006 8:44:16 PM PST by Nomad817
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BTTT


6 posted on 12/17/2006 8:50:36 PM PST by PGalt
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The next trend in shirts sold to doctors: a three-dimensional tie painted onto the shirt.


7 posted on 12/17/2006 8:53:03 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: ChurtleDawg
Click here to read more FR articles about MRSA.
8 posted on 12/17/2006 8:57:49 PM PST by blam
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The uniform of the future?


9 posted on 12/17/2006 9:07:02 PM PST by ZOOKER ( How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?)
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Why isn't the tie UNDER the white coat?


10 posted on 12/17/2006 9:10:47 PM PST by goodnesswins (I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
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Darn - there goes the hijab for any Muslim female doctors. Deal with it.


11 posted on 12/17/2006 9:14:57 PM PST by GnuHere
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I think I'll go into work tomorrow nekkid; after taking a shower of course.


12 posted on 12/17/2006 9:47:46 PM PST by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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That's it! I'm quiting medical school. No tie, no deal! ;D

My condolences.

Just when you finally start to break into a profession that pays enough to enable you to afford a decent wardrobe, yet still allows you to hold your head up in public....

...Next thing you know, they'll want you to set a "healthy example" by giving up your vehicle.

13 posted on 12/17/2006 11:15:57 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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Somehow, I don't believe that the PC-PTB would consider a hijab "superfluous".

They would twist their way out of that one, no matter how many weeks of physical therapy were required to unkink themselves afterward

14 posted on 12/17/2006 11:22:49 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Buck W.; blam; LadyDoc
Why just ties and other "superfluous clothing"? If a tie can carry the bug, a pair of pants probably can, too. Take 'em off. Oh, and you lady docs...

Supposedly it's because ties are rarely cleaned.

15 posted on 12/18/2006 12:22:09 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Karl Rove isn't magnificent.)
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To: neverdem

Ping. (Toss the tie,doc)


16 posted on 12/18/2006 1:34:03 PM PST by blam
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An NHS trust has also told all its staff involved in direct patient care not to wear jewellery, wrist watches, scarves or any "superfluous clothing".

A "naked-nurses" ping.

17 posted on 12/18/2006 1:36:56 PM PST by Junior (Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
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From last Feb....

Doctor ties 'to go in MRSA fight'

What's taken 'em so long?

Long fingernails on health care providers ought to go, too.

18 posted on 12/18/2006 1:40:33 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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This stuff ain't funny - at all. My wife has it right now(caught early) and in January of this year, I caught it which caused a staph infection to lodge in/around my spine which damn near killed me. If you ever get it - get to the doctor's office ASAP. It'll flat out get you one way or the other.
19 posted on 12/18/2006 1:59:14 PM PST by TomServo ("Uh, Donner, party of three please.")
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To: Nomad817
I'm thinking it's because people don't normally wash ties in the laundry, where pants/shirts atleast get that.

Actually laundry doesn't do a great job of removing bacteria. While you can remove dirt and other macro-particles, a lot of the nasty stuff stays behind on that nice, clean-smelling shirt....
20 posted on 12/18/2006 2:02:20 PM PST by newguy357
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