nick: I’ve seen the same thing and find it an extremely dangerous practice. But, you have to admit that it does make them look important.
cherry: >>”...we wear our uniforms to work and we wear them home...”<<
Why are you spreading germs from your contaminated ‘uniforms’ throughout the community? FYI, we are not impressed and view such behavior as reckless, to say the least. Take the five minutes and change into your street clothes for the sake of us common folks.
Before you start a flame war I must tell you that both my son and his wife are doctors AND that my wife nearly died from MRSP she contracted while in the hospital. So, save your breath if you plan to educate me us that it is safe to parade around town in your germ-ridden uniforms. Even a mechanic changes his clothes before going home.
Because she doesn’t care and is one of the problems. She takes germs all throught the community and to her home.
I am a hospitalist physician.
I wear street clothes to work and back home
I would wager if you swab every hospital workers nasal mucose that over 1/2 of us are carriers of MRSA
What would you practically do? Put every hospital worker on broad spectrum antibiotics that would only increase resistance?
MRSA is around and has been for years. It does not scare me nearly as much as most resistant bacterial infections (pseudomonas, vre, etc)
We see nearly as many cases of MRSA acquired in the community now as we do in the hospital. The bacteria is in the community at large and I do not see a practical way of stopping it. But we can run up huge tabs in attempting to control a horse that is long out of the barn.