CLINICAL NEWS
A Sick Day Can’t Keep the Doctor Away
What happens when the doctor gets sick? Well, not much
changes, apparently.
The Spice of Life
A study of 536 health-care workers in a children’s hospital revealed that 83% of health-care workers admitted to working
while sick at least once in the past year – and 9.3% reported
working while sick at least five times.
Reaching for that bottle of hot sauce might
help you live longer, according to an analysis of
dietary data from more than 485,000 people. Over a
median of 7.2 years of follow-up, compared with those who
ate spicy food less than once a week, those who consumed
spicy foods more frequently had a greater relative risk
reduction for death:
Almost all of the respondents said they believed that working while sick could put patients at risk,so why did they
continue to do it? The reasons included:
not wantin