No More White Coats?
The AMA may be regressive when it comes to health care reform, but it does sometimes display an impressive ability to change. Or maybe not. At its annual meeting, the AMA voted to recommend...
AMA / American Medical Association / hospitals / Ignaz Semmelweis / infection / medicine / sepsis / white coat
by mike · Published 2009-06-20
The AMA may be regressive when it comes to health care reform, but it does sometimes display an impressive ability to change. Or maybe not. At its annual meeting, the AMA voted to recommend...
Buried on Page 31 of the [US Senate Finance Committee’s policy reform document] was a proposal to “Modify the Requirements for Tax-Exempt Hospitals,” which would require nonprofit hospitals to maintain minimal levels of charitable...
Charles Delucena Meigs / childbirth fever / germ theory / hospitals / medicine / MRSA / puerperal fever / scrubs / sepsis / ties
by mike · Published 2008-09-24
In the UK, new NHS mandates prohibit doctors in hospitals from wearing ties, or long sleeves, out of concerns that such “professional” attire could carry germs. I did not carry any poison, or other...
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