The nosocomial problems associated with healthcare professionals repetitively licking their fingers while reviewing hospital charts was first formally documented by Myron M. LaBan, MD FAAPMR – the lead author of a 2004 brief report for the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Volume 83, Issue 1, pp. 75-78). The report encouraged healthcare professionals to :
1) Wash their hands before and after reviewing medical charts.
2) Become aware of (and ideally refrain from) licking their fingers.
See: • ‘Pertinacious Habit on a Rehabilitation Unit: Repetitive Finger Licking While Paging Through the Clinical Chart’
Also see: (from Dr. LaBan)
• “Numb Chin” Syndrome
• Lessons Learned Through Leadership: How to Avoid Looking Like an Onion With Your Head Stuck in the Ground and Your Feet Above
• Airport induced “cervical traction” radiculopathy: the OJ syndrome
Coming Soon: Problems associated with solutions to problems associated with healthcare professionals repetitively licking their fingers while reviewing hospital charts.
