Curator shares facts about fingers
Rule of thumb: If you are due for surgery, watch for nail polish.
Germs and bacteria work their way into nails with polish far better than nails without, explained Art Angus Trumble, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, at a Thursday lecture to promote his new book “The Finger: A Handbook.” Trumble himself underwent an appendectomy by a gloveless doctor and lacquered nurses, surviving the ordeal to offer the anecdote as a cautionary tale to about 30 people who gathered at the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall to hear Trumble riff on the...
Just read a great book by Panchali Dhar, MD called BEFORE THE SCALPEL: What Everyone Should Know About Anesthesia by Tell Me Press of New Haven (www.tellmepress.com) and the doctor also talks about nail polish on the finger being something that can interfere with readings when you are in the operating room. The book also reveals many of the aspects of anesthesia as it pertains to childbirth, obesity, children and cosmetic surgery. The book provides write-in capability for the reader's own medical questions and history so you can take the book with you to the doctor.