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Archive > December, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 12

Getting Your Surgeons Excited About Safety Sharps

How to make the doctors at your facility active partners in needlestick prevention.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Plastic surgeon Richard T. Vagley, MD, describes himself as fussy. Obsessive-compulsive. And incredibly meticulous. He's tried a safety scalpel. Once. Didn't like it, and probably won't try one again. For whom? For what?

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