Article (Fierce Healthcare): The dirty (and dangerous) truth about doctors' stethoscopes
Obviously, infection control is the key when it comes to a quality of health care delivery. To some extent, many patients end up dying from infection contamination while they admitted to a health care facility. We do understand why Joanne Finnegan exhibits it is dirty or dangerous the truth about doctor’s stethoscope in her article. The purpose of this article is to expose the fact that zero doctors do not really care about preventing infections when they neglected to wipe their stethoscopes between patient encounters. Clearly, the stethoscope can transmit the same germs as unclean hands to the target audience from patient to patient throughout the day. In addition, we might see that this issue weighs seriously the bad consequences of not properly using the infection control procedure. Overall, this amazing article shows the importance for our physicians to be aware of how they can transmit infectious diseases from patients to…show more content… Therefore, the author is serious that stethoscopes were capable of transmitting potentially resistant bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (Finnegan, J. 2017). Despite this article was well written, it needed more convincing background information to demonstrate that contamination of a stethoscope after a single patient exam is comparable to that of a physician’s dominant hand. Indeed, we did not expect that physicians would fail to clean their stethoscopes during a follow-up of a monitoring study. However, we learned for the fact that no one bothered with stethoscope hygiene. From our belief, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention needs to demand more to the physicians and to prevent infection diseases from contaminated
