Which is by far better a title than the dry "Reducing pathogen transmission in a hospital setting. Handshake verses fist bump: a pilot study."
Max Maxfield writes in his typically humorous style on the (for us) very serious topic of avoiding infection transmission while greeting others, based on a National Public Radio report which was itself based on the above study:
aussieneil, this could and probabaly will be added to. It made me smile trying to think of a poem to reply with. bumpsiedaisy. sorry no brain to-day. Love reading all the posts. Sue
Full marks for being brave enough to share your poetry here and to no doubt raise some much needed smiles in our community. Given how many members are reluctant to reply, let alone with original poetry, there's absolutely no need to feel apologetic about putting to verse a ditty that reminds us of how bugs are transmitted from person to person. You've got me laughing thinking of how we'd go introducing the knee knock greeting Then there could be Toe Touches, Ear Rubs and so on. Seems all we need is a high profile sports person or actor to start of a new (and healthier) greeting craze supported by a catchy ditty!
Sue, has your haematologist been consulted about the possibility of having a gall bladder operation? You might be given a course of prophylactic antibiotics to see you through the surgery.
This is the firs time I've seen gall bladder inspired poetry or was it the excess of white cells .
With respect to your question about spell checking, browsers sometimes have them built in, e.g. Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer 10, but you may need to download the relevant dictionary and enable it. That will spell check all text you enter in all websites (you see a wavy red line under any questionably spelt words in Firefox). Alternatively, you could compose your poetry and submissions in Microsoft Word and ensure that that has spell checking enabled. I don't know of any browser add-ons that check for rhyme or suggest likely rhyming words however .
Thanks so much for your reply Neil, I am taking steriods to build me up now and liquid antibiotic to try and prevent thrush. When they deem me fit enough they will operate. At least the 2 teams are now talking together. It was certainly inspired by too many white cells!!!! That treatment comes after. Do you have to download the smilies as well?
Sue, Good to hear that you have your two medical teams communicating - that's sadly not always that easy to achieve.
With regard to smileys (the correct terminology is emoticons), many sites like this one just reinterpret text equivalents into the smiley icons. Here's some basics with a dash "-" between the characters so you can see what you need to pair for different smileys (smile, wink and sad face):
Loved your ditty, Sue, it was so nice to have a smile, as the posts, for genuine reasons, have all been a bit dour recently. (I prefer the bumpsadaisy one - with the emphasis on the first three letters!).
I forgot to say that this month i have my first 6mo blood work and visit with oncologist im not expecting anything other than to continue W/W....ill let y,'all know.Thanks snd .blessings. Bev
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Then there could be Toe Touches, Ear Rubs and so on. Seems all we need is a high profile sports person or actor to start of a new (and healthier) greeting craze supported by a catchy ditty! 
: D Laughing, big grin, laugh with glasses
: ' ( Crying
: o Surprise, shock
: P Tongue sticking out, cheeky/playful, blowing a raspberry
: - / Skeptical, annoyed, undecided, uneasy, hesitant
: X Sealed lips or wearing braces
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