Medfools

Ever wonder that every hospital has its own soap? And as residents, we wash our hands like a hundred times with that industrial liquid soap. Every hospital, clinic, and office has their own soap. And sometimes that soap brings back memories on what has happened so far in a past experience. Recently the Fool was at a new hospital, with a different, but strangely familiar liquid hospital soap. It took awhile, but then BANG! It hit me. This it the same soap that they had at the VA hospital where I rotated as a med student! (affectionately named “Mordor”). Strange how something as benign and everyday as soap can bring back memories of a clinic or rotation, just by the smell…. Hmmmmmmmmm…. Soap.