Letter: Scrubs shouldn’t leave hospitals

Tuesday, June 14, 2005 | 9 a.m.

More and more we hear about potent germs infecting people in our hospitals, with the eventual death of many. Are not hospital staff required to change from street clothes to their scrubs upon entering the hospital? Yet I see people wearing their scrubs in casinos, stores, restaurants and other public places. Then they walk from the street back into the hospitals.

What type, and how many, potent germs are contracted outside and transmitted to patients by this careless practice? If there isn't a law to forbid staff from wearing their scrubs outside before going to their hospital duties, then there certainly should be one.

WALTER E. GUNTHER

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