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In reply to the discussion: NYC Orthodox Jews negotiate over right to give babies herpes and brain damage, and kill them [View all]Heddi
(18,312 posts)i'm sure at no point in your training were you advised to use your mouth as a way to tamponade the blood when you withdrew the needle, right? So why would YOU not use your mouth to stop flowing blood (you'd use a gauze or a band-aid), but it's no big deal for a mohel to use HIS mouth (the mouth that has done the same to thousands of other sources of blood-borne contaminants)?
Next time you get your blood drawn at the dr's office, tell the phlebotomist or RN that they don't need to use a band-aid, just use their mouth to suck the blood away. No big deal, right?
And, as an RN, I have to educate you that your understanding of why you were wearing gloves is only half right. Yes, you wear gloves to protect yourself from any bloodborne pathogens getting into a cut or hangnail. But you also wear gloves to protect your patient from whatever skin flora you have. THat's why we wash our hands....we get the junk off OUR hands to keep that junk from being spread to OTHER PEOPLE. So the risk isn't "basically ours." The risk is everyone. That's why we wear gloves. To protect ourselves AND OTHERS. That's why we wash hands--to protect ourselves AND OTHERS.
Unless you have some knowledge that thousands of Infectious Disease Speciality RN's don't know....