On the Fact that When a Surgeon Has to Sneeze In the Operating Room He or She Doesn't Turn Sideways but Instead Walks Backwards Away from the Patient

 Yeah, they do this because if they just turned sideways a percentage of the spittle and aerosols would go spraying out the side of the mask and potentially straight into the patient's wound.......Yet another thing to consider as we're forced to go around wearing these cork-soakers.