Boojatta
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Tue Apr-29-08 07:49 PM
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Poll question: When was it okay to say doctors should wash their hands before delivering babies? |
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Tue Apr-29-08 07:52 PM
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1. I believe it was a doctor in Austria back in the 19th century |
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who first made the correlation between doctors/nurses washing their hands and the survival rate of both newborns and their mothers.
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Tue Apr-29-08 07:54 PM
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2. Wasn't it Dr. Lister who figured it out? |
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And hence the name Listerine.
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Tue Apr-29-08 08:00 PM
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3. Joseph Lister was the man. |
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Tue Apr-29-08 08:26 PM
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5. Learn that in nursing school? |
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Tue Apr-29-08 08:30 PM
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6. Nice to hear from another nurse. |
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Fri May-02-08 04:25 PM
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Semmelweis. In 1847. When Baron Lister was all of 20 years old.
I knew "Lister" wasn't the right name, but "Semmelweis" eluded me until I read downthread.
Lister pushed for using sterile instruments and materials that wouldn't harbor infection in surgery some 20 years after Semmelweis pushed for simply washing hands with CaCl2 before handling neonates. Without an explanation for his observation, Semmelweis was mostly ignored.
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Tue Apr-29-08 08:02 PM
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He was fired from his hospital, put in a mental institution, and beaten to death within weeks.
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Thu May-01-08 12:37 PM
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9. He was treated in an appropriately sceptical fashion. |
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Wed Apr-30-08 08:31 AM
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7. It is very important to wash all |
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leafy vegetables. This is especially true of spinach. In fact my Dr. told me to only eat cooked spinach due to the chance of ecoli. I find that completely submerging my lettuce in water, and then using a salad spinner is a very good method.
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A.Never. B.Mostly. C.Frog. D.Purple. E.Frottage may be considered immoral in some cultures, surreal in others. F.In Dante's hell, the punishment fits the crime.
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