Ewww

Walking down the corridor just now with a surgeon, chatting about upcoming overseas trips, when we both spotted something yucky on the floor. I was just going to ignore it, but he reached down and picked it up with his bare hands. “Don’t worry!” he said “It’s not someone’s lunch!” It was actually a bit of skin with fatty tissue attached. A metre further down the corridor there was another, smaller piece, and he picked that up, too. I have to say finding that sort of thing on the ground is very much not normal, even in a theatre suite. I’m struggling to figure out in what circumstances it could have got there. People should have stopped shedding bits of themselves once they leave an operating room. It’s just untidy. And I hope that surgeon washes his hands.