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Your life is in hospital workers' (clean) hands

Washing hands can save patients' lives, but hospital workers still don't do it enough

By Peter DeMarco
Globe Correspondent / July 13, 2004

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Hand-washing is perhaps the easiest, lowest-technology way to prevent the spread of germs, but even the highest-tech hospitals can't seem to get their doctors and nurses to do it enough. (Full Article: 1157 Words)

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