Fun with Hygiene

Vet Students are Gross

This story was originally published on my vet school blog, “Wet Cleanup on Aisle 5.”

You’d think that, after taking a course in epidemiology this year, my classmates would be fastidious about general hygiene.  Alas, no.

Here are some of the more amusing (and disgusting) things I’ve observed this semester (and may have been guilty of myself):

  • Setting running shoes on top of drinking fountain
  • Failing to wash hands after using bathroom
  • Eating with hands and typing at the same time (keyboards are gross, y’all.)
  • Putting foot in the middle of desktop to tie shoe
  • Using pencil to poke dead stuff in pathology lab
  • Using same pencil to gesticulate and fling droplets from dead stuff across room
  • Not washing hands after poking dead stuff in pathology lab
  • Dragging sleeves through dead stuff in pathology lab
  • Talking on cell phone while on toilet
  • Pouring water from personal water bottle—after taking a drink from said bottle—into community teapot

Future health professionals all!

So, um… make sure your doctor washes their hands.

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About The Author

LaShelle Easton is a veterinarian, animal communicator, and author who hates describing herself in those terms because they put her in a box and leave out the fun stuff, like budding guitar player, chocoholic, tea lover, bookworm, crazy cat lady, computer geek, dinosaur fan… She lives on the edge of the North Cascades with The World’s Greatest Husband and their woggledog, cats, chickens, and sloth.

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  1. You have hit upon several things I see daily, working as a barista at a cafe within a chichi freshman dorm on the IU campus. I’ve seen kids put their feet upon the condiment bar (!) to tie their shoes. I have politely asked them not to do this, and they’ve looked at me like I’m crazy, or making an unreasonable request. Some other gross germ-conveying acts include: retrieving money out of bras and socks after jogging, or just in general, and passing it across the counter like it’s nothing (disgusting, born in a freaking barn?); sneezing into money just before paying for a mocha, then passing me the money like it’s no big deal (money with who knows what germs all over it?); or worse, coming into the cafe for morning coffee with an infectious cold and coughing and sneezing at the register (most times without covering their mouths); blowing noses into napkins and asking me to dispose of the soiled napkin (I have always refused, directing them to one of three garbage cans located throughout the cafe). And the list goes on and on.

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