Asked by itouchmice

2 years ago

QUESTION:

Should doctors/nurses be permitted to wear their scrubs and coats outside of the hospital?

I find it absurd that doctors don't take off their lab coats when walking into a Starbucks on their break. You've just been in contact with God knows how many sick patients...

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Frisbee

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2 years ago

They should have their own coffee machine so that they don't have to go to Starbucks or they should have assistants to buy that stuff for them.

Also, they are probably do that cuz it looks sexy to the ladies.

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itouchmice

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2 years ago

Sexy to the ladies till they find out that the scrubs are covered with viruses

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Frisbee

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2 years ago

The viruses themselves get sexified too!

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reegsta

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2 years ago

I'm sure there's a lot more grungier people at your local SBUX than a random doctor. You're probably just a germaphobe.

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Frisbee

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2 years ago

Yeah... They're probably the last people you need to worry about since they probably wash their hands so much but...they do have a lot of Superbug that you need to worry about though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance

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F171615

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2 years ago

anyone who doesn't feel doctors/nurses should be permitted in the public while wearing their scrubs qualifies as a germaphobe - not that there's anything wrong w/that.

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itouchmice

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2 years ago

so a doctor that walks into the hospital lab that has HIV positive blood/urine samples, can walk around in the same coat that was in the room?

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beachiolli

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2 years ago

you can't catch HIV from someone's coat!!

So what you're saying is that doctors should be in hazmat suits at all times they are in the hospitals? What about visitors?

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itouchmice

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2 years ago

i think it's pretty simple to take off a coat when leaving the office?

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Frisbee

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2 years ago

Or a decontamination chamber

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PeterCampbell

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2 years ago

You are mistaken. You can't transmit HIV that way. Stop spreading fear.

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itouchmice

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2 years ago

ok, HIV is a bad example considering the virus dies when outside the body for too long (i was just picking a prominent name). but one that is definitely a risk is hepatitis.

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itouchmice

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2 years ago

also, taking a coat off before going outside a hospital should benefit the patient. patients are already immuno-suppressed from being sick or recovering from surgery, and it'd be easier for them to catch a nosocomial infection (infection caught from the hospital).

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Magic

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2 years ago

They always busy .. most of them I guess ..
but They shouldn't do that for sure !

Also .. it's funny in my country .. some of medical students, walk in the surrounding wearing their white coat too .. :D

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MUCKSTER

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2 years ago

You forget that that is usually all that they are wearing so they would have to stip down every time they want to leave the hospital for five minutes. Stop being such a germophobe

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Frisbee

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2 years ago

Don't doctors have nurses and assistants?

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