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Unlicensed Cosmetic Surgery Hospitalizes 6 in N.J.

New Jersey medical authorities are investigating the incidence of and issuing alerts on unlicensed cosmetic surgery providers after 6 women suffered...

Rotator Cuff Repair Restores Strength, Not Function

Rotator cuff surgery may restore a patient's normal shoulder strength, but mobility issues persist in the repaired joint, according to researchers a...

Do Patients Expect Too Much From Joint Replacement?

Even with a thorough pre-op education program, more than two-thirds of joint replacement patients don't share the expectations that their surgeons d...

Archive > March, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 3
Our Readers Come Clean on Home-laundered Scrubs
Is home-laundering scrubs an easy place to save money without jeopardizing patient or staff safety?
Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

If the staff at the Surgery Center of Kansas had its way, the Wichita facility would buy its scrubs and let the staff launder them at home. "But our physicians wouldn't do this, so we'd still have to send out their scrubs, as well as the anesthesia providers' and vendors'," says Karen Gabbert, RN, BSN, the ASC's clinical director.

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