{"id":4318,"date":"2020-03-05T01:41:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T01:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2020-03-05T01:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T01:41:43","slug":"ewww-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/05\/ewww-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ewww"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking down the corridor just now with a surgeon, <!--more-->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. \u201cDon\u2019t worry!\u201d he said \u201cIt\u2019s not someone\u2019s lunch!\u201d 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\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>normal, even in a theatre suite. I\u2019m 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\u2019s just untidy. 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