Tangible Goals » style http://www.nealmueller.com Neal Mueller: Adventurer, Technologist. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:26:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hospitals ban neckties for doctors in effort against infection http://www.nealmueller.com/2009/12/style/ http://www.nealmueller.com/2009/12/style/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:20:42 +0000 Neal http://www.nealmueller.com/?p=822

“Ties are rarely laundered but worn daily,” the Department of Health said in a statement. “They perform no beneficial function in patient care and have been shown to be colonized by pathogens.”

[via AP 9/17/2007]. Originally read in Superfreakonomics.

Good reason to wear a tux.

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