Healthcare Triage: Doctors’ White Coats Can Host a Lot of Bacteria
For a lot of doctors and patients, the physician’s traditional white coat is a big part of a doctor’s identity, and contributes to their authority. Those white coats can also spread disease! It turns out, fabrics in doctors coats can be a breeding ground for bacteria, and they probably don’t get cleaned often enough.
We, the community of physicians, had been watching these patients die and trundling them off to the morgue for years.— Dr. Barry Farr, former president, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-uncounted-surveillance/
Fifteen years after the U.S. declared drug-resistant infections to be a grave threat, the crisis is only worsening, a Reuters investigation finds, as government agencies remain unwilling or unable to impose reporting requirements on a healthcare industry that often hides the problem.
HENRY KOTULA 