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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk'
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An NHS dentists says she was told to get rid of old magazines from her waiting room because they posed an infection risk.

Monica Symes, a dentist in Lyme Regis, Dorset, says an NHS infection control worker warned her that keeping back issues of Country Life could make her fail health and safety inspections.

The NHS regulator denies such a rule.

I was in my dentist and read about that ship sinking. So terrible, I think it was called the Lusitania. :shock:
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk'
My dentist still has New Scientists from the 1980's.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk'
TBH where are you gonna get the mags from? Either people donate them, or the dentists has to pay for them. Now who in their right mind is doing to pay a subscription or spend any kind of money on magazines for patients?
Author:  JJW009 [ Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk'
cloaked_wolf wrote:
...who in their right mind is doing to pay a subscription or spend any kind of money on magazines for patients?

...and then throw them away the instant one patient has touched them.

I was in a waiting room earlier today and this happened to cross my mind. I chose to read recent articles on my phone rather than touch the grubby looking magazines. It's bad enough that many of the people who sneezed on mw were possibly contagious...
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk'
You have around 2lbs worth of microbes on your skin. Why are you worried about everyone elses?
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk'
I remember a copy of 2000AD in my dentist's waiting room when I was a child. The first pert of The Visible Man where he says "hell's bells!". My mum was horrified. The image has stuck in my mind ever since.

There should be more comics in waiting rooms and fewer celebrity pap magazines.
Author:  pcernie [ Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk'
paulzolo wrote:
I remember a copy of 2000AD in my dentist's waiting room when I was a child. The first pert of The Visible Man where he says "hell's bells!". My mum was horrified. The image has stuck in my mind ever since.

There should be more comics in waiting rooms and fewer celebrity pap magazines.


I was about to agree until I realised that comics from the big publishers really aren't suitable for kids :oops:
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