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Krankenhaushygiene up2date 2016; 11(02): 119-122
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-108547
Editorial
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Tod dem Arztkittel?!

Simone Scheithauer
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10. Juni 2016 (online)

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Wieder hat ein krankenhaushygienisches Thema es geschafft, auf breites mediales Interesse zu stoßen. Diesmal jedoch kein Skandal, vielmehr die Lösung vieler Probleme: die Abschaffung eines Statussymbols, des Arztkittels! Diese – so wird es suggeriert – scheinbar längst überfällige Maßnahme werde es schaffen, multiresistente Erreger gleichsam wie nosokomiale Infektionen zu vermeiden.

 

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