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As a healthcare professional, I take for granted knowing how to properly wear and use PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). In my previous about how to wear a face mask, I discussed how it must cover your nose and mouth completely, to be effective.
Wearing gloves in public should never be done! Once you put on a pair of latex gloves, everything you touch (your purse, your wallet, your car door, your groceries, your hair, etc.) becomes CONTAMINATED!! Wearing gloves to the grocery store does NOTHING to protect you from the Coronavirus. The Coronavirus is an airborne pathogen, it cannot gain entry into your body through skin contact. Continue reading “How to Properly Wear Gloves Out in Public”
Some of the hardest hit by our current crisis are charitable organizations that rely on social events for fundraising. An organization that I am grateful for and have participated in events to help raise money, is the SECU Family House of Chapel Hill.
Now that the CDC has recommended we wear cloth masks in public, I have been sewing masks around the clock for patients, friends, and family. Many of you asked for the pattern I was using. Here is 
We hope you all are staying safe and productive during our ‘Shelter in Place’ mandate. I personally find social distancing very challenging…I love people and I love to be close to my friends, staff, and patients. Hopefully, by all doing our part, we will pull through this and we can welcome patients back into our office. 
