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Old Aug 30, 2012 | 11:02 am
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RichardKenner
 
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Originally Posted by RadioGirl
Try to imagine a hospital setting where the janitor, having just cleaned the toilets, "helps out" the doctors by rearranging sterile bandages and instruments in the operating theater. Try to imagine surgeons shrugging and saying "Cross contamination is probably something that happens, it would be impossible in a hospital to completely prevent it. We have training on it regularly to keep awareness up."
Neverthelss, every hospital does acknowlege that, even given their best efforts, iatrogenic infections will happen. Everybody who posted in this thread agrees that what was observed by the OP is unacceptable, but I also agree that cross-contamination is inevitable.
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