On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Dr. John Marshall Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > At a recent meeting in Bangalore on nosocomial infections, one prominent > > surgeon from St. John's said that in this day and age it is ridiculous > and > > unnecessary to take off one's shoes before entering an ICU because bugs > > cannot walk up beds and tables. I was surprised at this statement from a > I am surprised too. After all these years, does he/she still has the same > opinion ?
Well, I have strong issues with the fact that in many clinics and hospitals, the patients are mandated to remove their footwear...and the doctors and nurses don't. I pointed this out once at R V Dental College and was told that they didn't want patients to dirty the dental chairs. I promised not to, and kept my footwear on. Why do medical people do this? It's good, in places like Bangalore where the tiled floors might be cold (or even in other places where the Indian dust does crack the heels), to have a set of "home" slippers, that are never used outside the front door. I keep a few pairs of slippers for visitors who would like to use them.do hate people tracking in dirt on their shoes and spreading it all over my carpet! Yes, it is mostly the "foreign" visitors who forget to ask, and walk in with their designer trainers....every workman who comes home takes off his footwear as a matter of course. I do not like visiting temples because of the bare feet rule. My feet become so dirty, and I don't like, after the temple visit, putting my footwear on dirty feet and coming home. I have started preferring to wear covered footwear because of the dust. Deepa.
