Which is worse to clean up, vomit or blood?
As a doctor (who nursed through his student years,) I have had to clean up both on many occasions. When I was training there was not the concern about dealing with blood that there is quite rightly now. I can’t resist telling 2 of my true but gross stories about the early days that I was in hospital medicine. At that time, during the night, we were expected to do many of the lab tests on newly admitted patients ourselves. This included checking full blood counts and doing haemoglobin estimations. These were dome manually by plating blood and looking at the cells under a microscope and by using a haemoglobinometer. To do this we had to suck a measured amount of blood up using a rubber tube and pipette. If we sucked too hard and it went into our mouths, which was not uncommon at 3am often having had no sleep for 2 days, we just spat it out! Also when called to a cardiac arrest we would often start mouth to mouth and cardiac massage, though there were Ambu-bags, one way airways were just
