I am a third year medical doing summer practice in a cardiology unit. I don’t do a lot of things, i just put the patients data into computer,  eventually check the pulse and attach the electrodes to the patients skin for ekg. Normally neither the doctor, the assistant or other medical students don’t wear gloves since they do not come in contact with patients body fluids and, even though i am a germophobe i choose to not wear gloves because I thought it is safe. Well today we had a patient who could not speak. We told him to lay on examination table. I had to put electrodes on him for the ekg. He had like a bandana around his neck and chest. I wanted to move a little bit his bandana to attach the electrodes better and when I did that I saw that he had a hole in his throat which was full of mucus. I was grossed like hell and I went into full panic mode because I had my nails done 2 days ago and I cut my cuticles. Even though I touched the edge of his bandana where I guess it wasnt mucus i am still worried. I washed my hands afterwards and since then I obsessively used hand sanitiser  and even household products like domestos i am still freaking out. I cant stop washing my hands and sanitise them. I am too sick to even eat. Now im only using gloves from now on. Im si h an unfortunate person. 😢