I am blessed with a poor sense of smell. That is all I will say about c-diff.

C-Diff! Its a spore! <dum dum dum> So hard to kill spores! SPORES! And it also causes DIARRHEA!! Clostridium Difficile killed approximately 14,000 (not a typo) people in the US in 2012, and I TOUCH people who have it in my ER every day. Outrage anyone? anyone? <crickets>

* comment about how health care workers who follow appropriate IP&C guidelines are fucking idiots who deserve ebola, to lose their licenses, and will kill us all.

So can I take public transportation after treating patients with MERS, MRSA, VRE, TB, disseminated shingles, C-Diff, Influenza A, or enterovirus D68, all of which have higher transmission and infection rates other Ebola or is it just Ebola that's your area of vector transmission expertise? Please support your answer…

Yes, absolutely, when faced with a situation in which one has limited experience, one should always rely on a movie trope they've seen a million times to get them through it, though seeing as I am in the medical field, we usually rely on old episodes of House.

Got it, instead of seeking out guidance from the world's leading expert medical/ epidemiological research body above and beyond her local infection control experts, and making a decision based on their clinically based evidence of virology and best practice, Vinson should have logged on to Kinja and blindly obeyed the…

Thanks, and I entirely agree. I don't think ANYONE should be automatically canonized due to their career choice, but there's definitely a weird, militarized fetishistic and gendered aspect to how we treat people who die or get injured on the job who are police/military/fireman versus other vocations and I think in…

Totally. Instead of following professional protocol and the recommendations of every superior in her field up to and including the CDC, the world's best expert research body on this issue, she should have asked anonymous internet dude what to do.

Huuuuuunnnhhh? The OP (that the above quote was a reply to) stated that if Vinson died it would be her own fault. If a one sentence reply about how the pile on she's getting is kinda shitty constitutes hysterics/histrionics or somehow indicates anything about my satisfaction with my career (which I love) then we are…

Most employees in hazardous contaminant/weapon situations would refer to their CBRNE protocols and the highest expertise in the field that they have access to, such as the CDC, about how to proceed. Which Vinson did. The post that I was responding to was calling for Vinson to lose her license, and many people in…

Everyone currently alive will die someday, and so FREE WILL, lets just not bother having hospitals at all, after all, it's ultimately their fault right? FREE WILL! Is that you flogged corpse of Ayn Rand? And you don't care to argue because you're argument makes no fucking sense?

If Vinson was a cop who got injured while on the job following protocol in a situation where their superior gave them the go ahead, they would be getting a park named after them and the media would be calling them America's greatest fucking hero. And you want her to lose her license to practice?

Its mind boggling how a cop or firefighter who gets injured or killed on the job is automatically a TRUE AMERICAN FUCKING HERO who gets a statue and a golden halo from the media without a question of the circumstances, but an RN gets thrown shade even when they did everything they were supposed to and clearly followed…

Pena and Tim Robbins' performances and amazing chemistry together elevated that movie from horror movie level to something else entirely, and teenage me was completely in love with both of them and that relationship. hope she found peace.

Bunny suits won't do jack for someone who touches their nostril accidentally with a glove will trying to unzip the thing because they're not familiar with it. Bunny suits are an illusion of safety. Knowing how to use the appropriate PPE properly is real safety.

Doing anything unfamiliar in a high stress circumstance creates risk. That's why pilots and military do so many repetitive drills for highly unlikely events. If you're shit-scared but putting on equipment you're comfortable with and following a set of protocols that are well-known, you have a lot higher chance of not…

Ebola is not an airborne pathogen. There is no need for respirators; the transmission route is contact with fluid/droplet. If health workers use cumbersome unnecessary PPE (such as respirators), the risk of contamination is actually greater, as workers are more likely to accidentally touch themselves with contaminated…

Coco's colleagues are tall skinny girls who wear clothes for a living, she's a MODEL. As far as that kind of thing goes, and if that's not yer thing then that's cool, but in that kind of thing she is basically THE TITS, as far as anyone who knows or cares about that kind of thing is concerned, or should be. Ok then,…

Converted by RNs at an abortion clinic during a nursing school placement, 7 years and counting! I am picky about things that I endorse, but Mirena makes the cut. At least 5 colleagues in my ER have made the switch after hearing me proselytize.