In 1990, a northeastern U.S. hospital noted an unusually high incidence of sepsis from S. epidermidis infections in their cardiac patients. The source of this miniepidemic proved to be a surgeon. How...

In 1990, a northeastern U.S. hospital noted an unusually high incidence of sepsis from S. epidermidis infections in their cardiac patients. The source of this miniepidemic proved to be a surgeon. How might this episode have happened? (Hint: the surgeon had dermatitis. Also, in cardiac surgery, it is necessary to saw through the rib cage, creating many sharp bone fragments.)