Mrsa: now wash your hands - It s been said that the greatest medical breakthrough was to get doctors to wash their hands an observation that was made around 140 years ago Sadl...

Now don't wash your hands - Re Treatment of the Month and doctors not washing their hands (WDDTY vol 10, no 7), it reminded me of a friend who attended an extremely expensive fer...

Wash your hands: - The doctor won't, so you'd better - Possibly the single greatest advance of modern medicine was a discovery made around 1850. Doctors were spreading disease because they weren't washing...

Hospital infections: It’s up to the patient to tell the doctor to wash his hands, says health chief - Hospital doctors in the UK so rarely wash their hands while on their rounds that patients are being encouraged to have their own hand-gel ready by the...

Let's Work Together: A shocking idea for doctors - Here’s a novel idea. The General Medical Council, which regulates doctors in the UK, has come up with new practice guidelines that recommend for the...

Trying the old soft soap to prevent disease - If in doubt, wash your hands. This medical maxim, which is being tried out with good success by surgeons (see past stories in Treatment of the Mont...

Doctor Errors: Sometimes they don’t know their right hand from their left - Do you know your right hand from your left? Of course you do – but a surprisingly large number of doctors don’t. This can be a problem if you’re amp...

A disease of doctors - When we think of pneumonia, we see it as a complicated and dangerous infection caused by bugs ‘in the air’. But there are a number of disparate, but c...