Yeh Kureah, no gloves sometimes. It is actually thought to be more beneficial to the patient if we don't wear gloves (in terms of touch being a healing essence in itself), but we must wash our hands before and after touching each patient. There are also certain times when it is a must that we wear gloves and occasionally gowns (ie, dealing with bodily fluids, giving shots, patient's with MRSA, things like that).

Can I ask you this, what is your biggest fear in contracting AIDS?
Is it really not AIDS you fear but actually any germ that will expose you to the risk of death itself?

I ask because as a teenager, I become a hypochondriac, always felt like something was wrong with me reguarding sickness, to the point I could not leave my home. For me, I thought it was the fear of death itself, I thought I was going to die ect. But the reality was that there was a deeper fear under the surface of all of that.

I over came it but slowly forcing myself to do the very things I feared until I gained confidence in those areas. (ie..realizing I was not going to die, get sick, ect......even though the fear was so REAL to me...... and I could not explain to anyone how I really felt).

Ironic, now I work at the hospital around sickness all the time and I am perfectly fine

Hangingon