Steven D. Levitt Quote

Among the best solutions: using disposable blood-pressure cuffs on incoming patients; infusing hospital equipment with silver ion particles to create an antimicrobial shield; and forbidding doctors to wear neckties because, as the U.K. Department of Health has noted, they are rarely laundered, perform no beneficial function in patient care, and have been shown to be colonized by pathogens.

Steven D. Levitt

Among the best solutions: using disposable blood-pressure cuffs on incoming patients; infusing hospital equipment with silver ion particles to create an antimicrobial shield; and forbidding doctors to wear neckties because, as the U.K. Department of Health has noted, they are rarely laundered, perform no beneficial function in patient care, and have been shown to be colonized by pathogens.

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