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It’\"\"<\/a>s now been some years since I’ve felt comfortable working with the feel of soft cotton on my elbows. Even when not in a designated clinical zone, its sort of wrong. Anyway, after the success of ‘wash your hands’ decade in making millions of people have cracked, sore skin, there’s a thrust to the obsessive wiping of stethoscopes too.<\/p>\n

But how ‘evidence based’ is this new hygienic puritanism?
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\nThere are people investigating the case for even greater quantities of cleansing products in the wastebins of our hospitals, but in the meantime, do you have an opinon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s now been some years since I’ve felt comfortable working with the feel of soft cotton on my elbows. Even when not in a designated clinical zone, its sort of wrong. Anyway, after the success of ‘wash your hands’ decade in making millions of people have cracked, sore skin, there’s a thrust to the obsessive […]<\/p>\n

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