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I wiped a LOT of blood — infected and not — off my fingers, hands, and arms in the course of practicing neurosurgical anesthesiology for 38 years (now retired).

I'd guess hundreds of times.

Often — especially nights and weekends — there's no other anesthesiologist available to come to the O.R. for relief and a chance to wash it off.

In those cases, I'd ask the circulating nurse to get a bunch of towels and run them under hot water at the scrub sink, then give them to me to wipe off as best I could.