What if a doctor didn’t wash their hands between patients?

I’ve been an emergency room doctor for 35 years. I have probably washed my hands over 150,000 times. What the heck? How much is enough? What would happen if I just didn’t wash my hands? Well, first, the hand-washing police (yes, there is such a thing … they wander around the hospital watching for clinicians

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