DEAR ABBY: While sitting by my father's hospital bedside, I was handed the phone by a gloved LVN who was in the process of checking the other patient in the room -- a man covered with skin rashes.
Also, my friend recently refused to have her temperature taken by an LVN who had just changed the diaper of her roommate and was still wearing the same pair of gloves!
It makes me wonder what happens to sleeping or unconscious patients who do not have a friend or relative standing guard. -- REPULSED IN SALINAS, CALIF.