Regardless of the environment or task there will always be both old school and new school. Regarding the Coast Guard, old school is the day before you joined and new school is the day after you joined.
Today, Mr. C lecturing without gloves and touching a cadaver with his bare hands while explaining the etiology of a simple pneumothorax was most definitely old school. He wipe the end of his nose and then touch the specimen again... an action that horrified me. Would I touch a dead person's lung without gloves? no. Would I touch a living person's lung without gloves? no. I am new school and happy for it. In the same breath, thank you for you crusty, old, old-schoolers, without your adventure and ingenuity... we would not know about communicable diseases and the need for gloves (amongst other things), thank you.
LOVE this post.
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