Another little thing about our ILS training. Interesting because no one wants to do these things, but it is possible to embrace them to get the most out of them and help them make you better in all sorts of different places.
Over the past few weeks, I've heard some real horror stories from different practices around the United Kingdom of the way they're now cutting corners so, let alone the way they're treating their teams or what they're paying their teams or how they're looking after their facilities, or how they're letting things go through rack and ruin because the NHS has cut their wages or they haven't got enough private patients.
There are now guys who are reusing bags of saline, which are attached to their surgical motors, apparently completely oblivious of the cross-infection risk of that, just cutting the end of the tube each time they reuse it for another patient and bringing it closer and closer to the next patient so they can use more of it. It's £2 a bag, for f*ck's sake. If your business needs to save on that, you are in trouble.
The other one I know that people do is that they use single-use Bio-Oss or Bio-Gide. They cut them in half, sprinkling the Bio-Oss particles into another container after they've opened the bottle or cutting the membrane in half so they can use it for two patients and charge, again, really? Is your business in that much trouble?
When you start to cut corners like this, skimp on your emergency drugs or your CPR training, skimp on all of your training, skimp on anything that helps your culture, skimp on the rewarding of your team, just generally cut back on everything to maintain your own income is fine, but it's only fine until it isn't and then it isn't, and then it isn't fine and then your f*ck*d.
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