Are your hands clean, doc?
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/10/nation/18256139&sec=nation
KUALA LUMPUR: Remind doctors to keep their hands clean. That is what Health Ministry deputy director-general (medical) Datuk Dr Noorimi Morad wants nurses to do to ensure that patients do not get infected while in hospital.
“Nurses are better in complying than doctors. We have to persist in increasing awareness,” she told The Star yesterday after opening the 3rd International Congress of the Asia-Pacific Society of Infection Control.
“It is not that they do not want to do it, but they might forget when they are very busy. So, the nurses must be around to remind the doctors.
Somehow the tone of this Datuk is very condescending. For one, he stereotypes doctors as forgetful individuals who risk patients' lives by being unhygienic. Secondly, he demotes nurses to become the doctors' personal assistants who only need to remind doctors to wash their hands.
Granted the intention might be noble, but certainly there are more tactful ways to disseminate this information to these medical professionals, and not berate them in the mass media!
BLA BLA BLA!
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