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In that case, anyone with a sniffle should be sent home immediately but they are not...
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At my faculty and the hospital, people are strongly urged to stay at home if they suspect there's a chance they might have the flu.
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Every medical care worker should be HIV tested and fired if they have AIDS but they are not....
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Tests for HIV, Hep B, etc are mandatory. If you test positive, you're banned from a wide range of jobs because of the risk of infecting patients. Likewise if Hep B vaccination doesn't provide sufficient immunization. Unsatisfactory titer? You'll never be a surgeon.
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Every medical worker should be forced to get a full medical exam once per week but they are not....
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The costs of that would be prohibitive, and possible gains would be small. Regular checkups, however, actually are required.
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Your logic is flawed. Sick people work in hospitals every day. Sick people provide excellent medical care in some cases, and healthy people provide horrible medical care in other cases. Why don't we require ambulance drivers and EMTs to get injected? How about Taxi Cab drivers - They come in contact with more people every day than any hospital staffer... are are far less sanitary.
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Your knowledge is lacking.
Minimizing the amount of infections among hospital workers minimizes risk of outbreaks. Providing excellent care doesn't matter if you infect a kid who has leukemia with the flu, since the infection has a good chance of killing the kid.
As for cab drivers - they don't typically spend their days among immunocompromised patients, nor do they perform medical procedures which bring them into close physical contact with their clients.
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Why don't we require airline flight attendants to get injected? They are on a fucking plane with you for 6+ hours breathing RECIRCULATED AIR that you are all sharing and they are traveling all over the country/world each week where diseases are much more likely to be passed around.
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How many airplane passengers are undergoing chemo? How many aiplane passengers have large open wounds from surgery they just had? How many flight attendants change bandages on their passengers' bodies? How many flight attendants inspect their passengers' various orifices? Etc.