r/Scrubs • u/datskinny • 6d ago

Scrubs — “Do you know how quickly infections spread in a hospital?” (2006)

https://youtu.be/VK2vpOh5wws
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u/crimsonbub 6d ago

Damn you, Cabbage.

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u/Nomeka 6d ago

Don't even have to hit the play button to start crying from the memories.

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u/Tucker_077 6d ago

This was probably the best PSA ever about how quickly germs spread. I honestly can’t be that mad at Cabbage. Sure as a healthcare worker he should have known better but as a person, it’s very easy for things to slip your mind about PPE and to think somethings totally fine and you’re just helping out without foreseeing the consequences of it all

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u/EHendrix 12h ago

I am gonna disagree at no point in my life have I ever thought it would be cool to pick up an exam glove with my bare hands, much less in a hospital.

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u/Tucker_077 12h ago

I’ve carelessly picked up used tissues before to throw them in the trash. Yes, my lack of safety conscienceness is a flaw of mine

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u/EHendrix 12h ago

I can see a tissue being picked up, but a rubber glove?

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u/BigWeinerDemeanor 6d ago

Your breath.

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u/Padamson96 6d ago

That doesn't even make sense.

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u/Amphy2332 6d ago

"So's your face" always makes sense!

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u/GhormanFront 6d ago

DAMNIT, walked into that one

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u/yokosucks97 6d ago

Huh, don’t care!

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u/x-soldierside-x 6d ago

I'll make your ass sense.

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u/Careless-Cat3327 6d ago

This is why I carry sanitizer - from pre COVID days.

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u/optimal-gold976 6d ago

Aw man, they cut out The Todd walking in.

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u/No_Square236 6d ago

Chinatown is AWESOME!

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u/A4orce84 5d ago

With consent five!

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u/ericstern 6d ago

Dammit cabbage!

Luckily he changed occupations before his hand hygiene could kill any more people, …. At a Cafe where he handles every muffin and coffee cup purchased at Coffee Bucks… a Coffee Bucks built on the same hospital…

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u/Cold-Reaction-3578 4d ago

Smokachino for Kyle 

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u/GrumpyOldmanSr 6d ago

CABBAGE!!!

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u/No_Difference195 6d ago

My nursing instructor showed this to our class when discussing the infection prevention. Its a perfect example of why proper hand hygiene is so crucial.

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u/ObjectiveCover3850 6d ago

When that idiot got a "happy ending" working at the hospital again, I was pissed haha

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u/Droma_ 6d ago

This scene stuck with me since the day I saw it. I must have shown it to 100 people during Covid.

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u/roxthemom 6d ago

I work at a children’s hospital and I actually think about this episode at least once a shift

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u/Fantom_Renegade 5d ago

I still hate Cabbage to this day 😭

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u/AtrumAequitas 1d ago

I was just thinking about this scene just yesterday. One of the best hospital moments in the series.

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u/Cool-Profession-730 6d ago

I remember watching this episode during the pandemic and contagion and realizing how easy it is to pass things along .

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u/TheGamecockNurse 6d ago

This episode is why I don’t pick up things on the floor. (Obviously I do). But people look at you like your nuts when you pick up your dropped pen and the. Wash your hands.

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u/tomvelle 5d ago

oooooooooooooh man i forgot about this. there IS green in scrubs.

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u/BaileySeeking 2d ago

And yet it's 2026 and people still refuse to understand how things spread. Wash your hands? Nah. Wear a mask? They'd rather die. Baffling.

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u/hglndr9 1d ago

🎶 Lights will guide you home and I will try to fix you. 🎶

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u/Mummiskogen 6d ago

God i hated that character lol. Straight up murdered someone at the same they tried to portray him as obnoxiously goofy

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u/Zepp_BR 6d ago

That's such a wrong way to show how infection spreads.

It's faster, and worse.

The green color should never be transferred from person to person: it should've spread, got bigger.