Public-health officials trying to reduce hospital-acquired infections have adopted this one:
forbidding doctors to wear neckties because, as the U.K. Department of Health has noted, they
- “are rarely laundered,”
- “perform no beneficial function in patient care,” and
- “have been shown to be colonized pathogens.”
—Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Super Freakonomics, p. 298 (bullet-points added).
can’t help being confused by the obvious Alpha Omega Delta reference.
I thought of you when I uploaded that pic, Sam! I was looking for a good pic to go along with this quotation, and I thought of the Omega tie. No offense! It’s nice—as far as ties go.
Made me laugh. But Zeta Chi polka dots would have been even more awesomeness.
Now I am all about that!