{"id":165,"date":"2011-02-07T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T10:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=165"},"modified":"2011-02-08T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T09:28:40","slug":"clean-your-hands-and-wash-your-stethescope-while-youre-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2011\/02\/07\/clean-your-hands-and-wash-your-stethescope-while-youre-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean your hands! And wash your stethoscope while you&#8217;re at it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-166\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/2011\/02\/07\/clean-your-hands-and-wash-your-stethescope-while-youre-at-it\/cleanhands\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166\" title=\"cleanhands\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/files\/2011\/02\/cleanhands.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a>s now been some years since I&#8217;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 &#8216;wash your hands&#8217; decade in making millions of people have cracked, sore skin, there&#8217;s a thrust to the obsessive wiping of stethoscopes too.<\/p>\n<p>But how &#8216;evidence based&#8217; is this new hygienic puritanism?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\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?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now been some years since I&#8217;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 &#8216;wash your hands&#8217; decade in making millions of people have cracked, sore skin, there&#8217;s a thrust to the obsessive [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2011\/02\/07\/clean-your-hands-and-wash-your-stethescope-while-youre-at-it\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-service-organisation","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}