This article in the AARP Bulletin opened my eyes. According to the article, by Katherine Greider, 2 million patients a year are infected in the hospital. Of these 90,000 will die from that infection. Are our hospitals that dirty? I've never liked hospitals but I always chalked it up to liking to sit still for too long. Go to the AARP website. This makes me wonder if someone wouldn't be safer in Iraq than the hospital.
On the same subject, for a State-by-State guide to health care provider performance, you can click on this link. The story, by Christopher J. Gearon, makes me wonder why health care isn't a higher priority with more people.
Shifting gears and grabbing third, let's hope the colder weather keeps the bangers inside. Today is only the 9th. day of the new year and we've had a shooting and a mob scene outside a dance involving a gun. These issues need to be addressed. The same names seem to keep popping up. These people would have to be considered habitual offenders. Someone should enact a 3 strikes and you're out ordinance and enforce it. When you see juveniles with criminal records longer than your arm, the system isn't working.
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My personal observations of local hospitals are that the nurses and hospital staff tend to be cavalier in their safety precautions. I have watched them be careless with sterile items they are handling. I have watched them walk into a room eating food or carrying equipment then lay their food/equipment down, handle sick patients, clip boards and other equipment then pickup their food/equipment again (even going to their mouth with their unsanitary hand during the visit) and walkout without using proper hand washing procedures and continue their rounds. Anytime a family member enters the hospital I now watch the nurses and staff like a hawk. I have seen my late mother catch an anaerobic infection (which required her surgery incision to be left open for the entire long healing process), MRSA staph twice (the doctor said the second time was not uncommon as once you have the bug, it is a present for life) traced to her contracting it at the local hospitals; plus years later she contracted another completely different bacteria that could never be traced as to where she picked it up, that would cause her eventual death. At one point I was into a very vocal argument with the local hospitals over their sloppy care of my mother, which included an overall lack of planning and execution of basic hygiene and rehab. My father also contracted MRSA when in the local hospital and has had to fight it after two of his major surgeries. He has also had several other questionable hospital experiences that cause me to keep an ever-watchful eye on his caregivers when in the hospital. When it comes to hospital care I have developed the attitude of “Trust No One”.
Sorry to hear about your problems. I guess I never thought it was this bad, now we know.
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