PPE, personal protective equipment. In the past, I encountered that term little more than once a year, usually at annual company safety training time.
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It’s the third week of April and snow is in the air. Really? The governor says everything will be different for a long time. It is different. PPE is an everyday, all the time concern that occupies my mind and my face. I am actually seeing patients using Facetime.
Forced to confront technology for socially distant meetings, some bolder souls have been experimenting with other IT recommended technology, like voice recognition and voicemail transcription. This is where the PPE and technology clashed recently. According to a friend, he found a machine transcribed voicemail in his email inbox. It said, “Central Sterile will store and distribute masks, gowns, gloves, and face shields. You will not be handling your own pee pees anymore.”
Don’t forget to wash your hands before and after handling your PPE and pee pee.