[cardiacRN2006]

I just fill my holes with jibbitz anyways...

[CRNI-ICU20]

If Crocs are causing medical people to fall and break their legs, wouldn't you think there would be a massive RECALL???
I don't believe the story that "its happening all over the country...."
An OTJ injury is covered under workman's compensation....the hospital does not bear the brunt of the injury....that is paid into via workman's comp insurance.....collective bargaining units, etc....
This is just BS...
I will do a google search and see if there's hundreds of Croc's injuries out there....be back later...

[queenjean]

I stopped wearing my crocs to work after I had a lovenox needle go through them. It was one that you were supposed to depress the plunger firmly, and then the needle retracts. Except the needle didn't retract. So I'm looking at the syringe, I jiggle the barrel, and the needle pops out and nosedives into the top of my crocs (the solid ones, not the style with holes). That little needle went straight through them, luckily it went in between my toes instead of into one.

Now I wear my leather London-style birks.

[kfabian32]

Originally Posted by stevielynn

Well, I regularly have to disinfect my shoes and I still won't wear them inside my own home.

We have one doc who wears Crocs and we all dread him in L&D. He makes such a bloody mess and walks out in those shoes and leaves footprints of blood all the way down the hall. Of course he would do that with whatever kind of shoes he wore.

Shoes are probably one of the most dirty parts of what we wear everyday.
Although I don't see the difference between Crocs and running shoes.

steph

Steph-
At least the doc wears shoes!!! We have one older doc who frequently does deliveries in the middle of the night barefoot!! Or just as bad an old pair of shoes rumored to be from his med school days! Disgusting!!! Does anyone from IC address him? NO and they all know it occurs.
Kathy

[queenjean]

Once, when I came home from a good day at work--no discernible blood, stool, urine, or vomit on me anywhere--my young dog went NUTS for my shoes. Could not keep her away from them. It was like she was a coke addict and I had walked through a bag before coming in the door.

Considering she also acts this way about very dead animals, other dogs' old stool, and cow patties, I decided to never ever wear my shoes home. I wipe them down with disinfectant wipe every day, and put them back in my locker.