“Everyone knows that surgeons use instruments to operate and everyone sees on television, through the news and various other shows that medical technology is expanding by leaps and bounds with each passing year. Yet very few people realize that all this expensive new instrumentation needs to be cleaned and reprocessed following each and every surgery. And because of that, even fewer can fathom that there is an entire department that focuses on the cleaning and sterilization of surgical instruments. We are in effect an invisible department.”