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Yes,probably due to stupidity rather than selfishness. That can always be interchanged in these scenarios. Yet looking good compelled the doctor to clean the stuff that didn't matter. Perhaps that is the point.

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There may be something to this:

After examining 638 in-use containers, Hovding et al. recovered bacteria from 82 bottles (12.9%) when the solution was dripped from the bottles. They also found clinically and microbiologically significant growth in 12 cases (1.9%). In other studies, serratia keratitis has been transmitted by contaminated eye-droppers, and contaminated eye drops have caused Pseudomonas aeruginosa corneoscleritis. Additional studies have confirmed that in-use container contamination occurs and that serious eye infections can be transmitted from such containers. These studies also refute the belief that doctors, nurses, and patients will always apply eye drops properly, without causing contamination by touching the containers.

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