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Both of my jobs require a mask for every patient contact. And gloves. And if there is any symptom suggesting infection, eye protection.

And to be clear, this is both for your protection and for the protection of your patients. (I know you know; it's for the benefit of others).

When I was a resident, we had a patient with lupus who was so horribly immunosuppressed who developed disseminated TB (basically, her physicians thought her symptoms were due to a lupus flare so they increased her immunosuppressives, when, in fact, they were due to tuberculosis).  She was hospitalized for over a month until she could finally get her TB cleared and was no longer infectious.  Throughout the entire time, she never developed any hospital acquired infections, because every one who went into her room was religious about using PPE and washing hands, etc.  Within a week of her being declared non-infectious and of contact/airborne precautions being lifted, she developed VRE (a resistant infection).

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[BostonCard]

Both of my jobs require a mask for every patient contact. And gloves. And if there is any symptom suggesting infection, eye protection.

And to be clear, this is both for your protection and for the protection of your patients. (I know you know; it's for the benefit of others).

When I was a resident, we had a patient with lupus who was so horribly immunosuppressed who developed disseminated TB (basically, her physicians thought her symptoms were due to a lupus flare so they increased her immunosuppressives, when, in fact, they were due to tuberculosis).  She was hospitalized for over a month until she could finally get her TB cleared and was no longer infectious.  Throughout the entire time, she never developed any hospital acquired infections, because every one who went into her room was religious about using PPE and washing hands, etc.  Within a week of her being declared non-infectious and of contact/airborne precautions being lifted, she developed VRE (a resistant infection).

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