Worth paying attention to.
That’s not surprising, and it’s why the old-school doctors still tell you to avoid surgery whenever possible. They know. It’s the “we can put a pin in your broken bone to make it look perfect after it heals” crowd that bears watching.
Now there’s apparently an awful strain of MRSA spreading quickly through the gay community in CA. Very scary.
Very worrisome indeed. Even if you stay away from hospitals—which isn’t always possible—this stuff is still getting out into communities as other people carry it out of the hospitals.
Something that scares me, is hospitals that have carpeted rooms. Those floors cannot be mopped up with sterilizing cleansers. (Just imagine what has landed on that carpet.)
When I had major surgery four years ago, I was very concerned about MRSA. My doctor put a sign on the door stating that hands must be washed before touching patient (me). In five days, I only saw two people wash their hands before touching me. Lord knows where their hands were before they came into my room.
I’m not at all comfortable with the figures being presented here. I worked in a moderate sized hospital in a large metropolitain area of the nation. That hospital alone had 120 thousand admissions per year, and it was only one of 200 hospitals in that region. Expand that out statewide and nationwide, and you’re talking about a massive amount of admissions each year.
1.2 million infections sounds like a serious number of instances of infection to be sure. Is that representative of 11% of the hospital admissions? I seriously doubt it.
This doesn’t pass the sniff test.
I wonder how much of this crap can be traced to illegals from third world countries.
The article can be dismissed with extreme prejudice when this quackery appears.
I like to avoid places with sick people whenever possible.
This came up in a story a week ago here, where the police broke down a door with a swat team to drag some 11-year-old kid from his paramedic father and take him to the hospital for tests, which were all negative.
Many argued that it was better to be “safe than sorry”, but my position is that going to the hospital is never “safe”, and is in fact a major risk that has to be weighed against the possibility of harm from not getting treatment.
I remember not to long ago on the various threads where MRSA was being discussed that I called for the hospitals to TELL PEOPLE when they have these infections in their facilities. Boy did I get an ear full of how that is not possible, how it was unreasonable, blah, blah, blah.
My mother-in-law has COPD. She has been in and out of hospitals over the holidays. Guess what? She now has MRSA.
The medical industry cares more for the continued money train than they do about people’s actual health. Flame away.
I’ve heard many say it is overblown, but I’ve known too many folks who contracted it. And it isn’t like I associate with IV drug users, prostitues, or third world immigrants.
One lady I currently know has it and has been in and out of the hospital for thee years now.
her husband died from it and believe it or not so did one of her cats!
Needless to say, I don’t vist her house too often without the hazmat suit with the self-contained breathing unit turned on!
We now test all patients on admission to our unit. People are arriving to hospitals seeking treatment already carrying MRSA. Handwashing is the number one prevention of the spread of infections.
ping for later