Kent Sepkowitz, the Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Quality and Safety at MSK, an Infectious Disease Specialist, and a Game of Thrones fan, highlights how Hollywood is not always the most adept at providing historically accurate depictions, especially when it comes to healthcare and modern medicine. His assessment of the season premier of Season 7 of Game of Thrones tackles the odd appearance of rubber gloves in a storyline depicting contact isolation and hygiene, three concepts foreign to the medieval world. Sepkowitz provides a brief background to the invention of rubber gloves along with his analysis of last week’s plot.