should health professionals be allowed to eat garlic?

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Or should they be more considerate to those they are breathing over?

Better that than smoking! I remember one OT who seemed to believe (as do many) you can drown out the smell of you smoking with tons of perfume..if only!

Mignonette, it's great you think like that with perfume, when in hospital one of my favourite members of staff makes me feel really ill with her perfume!

I used to work for a well-known optician's chain, which had a rule that optometrists were not allowed to eat curry or garlic the day before work.

IMO, yes they should. And, shock horror, smoke if they want to.
My DH is a teacher, he happily eats garlic and onion virtually every day. If he has a parents evening, he tends not to the night before.
I get a bit cross that the parents are seen as more important than the pupils.
What I loathe is BO. I am aware that there are some people who can't help it but on the whole it's people who just don't wash frequently enough.