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• You've mastered the art of the 15-minute break — go to the bath- room, drink some water, eat something and check your phone — but you wonder how smokers get all those essentials done, and still find time to fire up a heater in their secret designated smoking area in your smoke-free campus. • You've organized your dresser drawers like the medication carts and supply cabinets at work: newest items to the back and older items to the front. You do outdates, and try to keep a par level of 2 for most things. You front things in your drawers. You know, the just- washed things under the items that were done yesterday. You also sort your closet by color and size. • The "5-Second Rule" never applies in your world. Ever. I've observed lay-people drop a bite of food, pick it up, look at it, blow and then gobble it right down. As long as they picked the food off the floor within 5 sec- onds, they think bacteria didn't have time to transfer to the food. I have gasped in horror to watch a mother pick up a dropped pacifier, swirl it around in her mouth, and then put it back in the baby's mouth. In my OCD world, there is no 5-Second Rule anywhere for any- thing. I won't even eat that which has fallen on my counter at home, much less on my own floor. • Your blood runs cold when you see some- one touching dirty scrubs other than their own with their bare hands. Sometimes touching the scrubs I've had on for the last 8 to 10 hours seems to be a little dodgy to me. • You want to yank the person sitting on a clean Behind Closed Doors BD 1 1 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • A U G U S T 2 0 1 9

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