*Outdoor* Secondhand Smoke is a Hazard?

[wolf]

Originally posted by tw
Unrelated to the original topic - ever have a human come in smelling so bad that someone on staff actually vomitted? Now that would be a benchmark for bad.

Yes, but she was pregnant, and might not actually count for the purposes of your question.

If someone stinks THAT bad my department has several solutions.

1. Breathe through your mouth. This doesn't really work.

2. Limit actual contact. Talk to patient through the closed door if necessary. When your eyes start watering, the interview is over.

3. Rub a bit of orange essential oil in your nostrils. This stuff replaces the scent of stinky homeless guy with that of Florida-fresh oranges. Extends amount of time you can spend with patient. You may recall simliar usage of Vicks Vap-O-Rub from Silence of the Lambs. This also works, but the smell of Vicks is horrendous on it's own AND you have those white smears under your nose you can't get rid of easily.

(Crap, that reminds me. We have to hide the orange oile from the accredidation surveyors that are coming next monday because I bought it at a new age store and we can't get a Materials Safety Data Sheet for it ...)