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Why don't doctors wash their hands more?
Chen PW. New York Times. September 17, 2009.

The author uses personal experience to explain how sterile technique is strict in the operating room. The column highlights the Joint Commission effort to improve hand hygiene compliance in the health care system as a whole.
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