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Hospital bans waiting-room magazines
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Nov. 09, 2010 9:26PM EST
Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 10:35AM EST
If you?re looking to steal holiday recipes from the latest magazine, you?ll have better luck at the dentist than at the hospital ? at least in Toronto.
The tables in the waiting areas throughout Women?s College Hospital ? once covered with magazines ? now hold signs explaining the absence of reading materials. Hospital staff decided that magazines, because they cannot be disinfected, can spread diseases such as C. difficile and influenza....
More- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/hospital-bans-waiting-room-magazines/article1792670/
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Nov. 09, 2010 9:26PM EST
Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 10:35AM EST
If you?re looking to steal holiday recipes from the latest magazine, you?ll have better luck at the dentist than at the hospital ? at least in Toronto.
The tables in the waiting areas throughout Women?s College Hospital ? once covered with magazines ? now hold signs explaining the absence of reading materials. Hospital staff decided that magazines, because they cannot be disinfected, can spread diseases such as C. difficile and influenza....
More- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/hospital-bans-waiting-room-magazines/article1792670/