'Kay, Sherlock, you remember how well your previous MRSA thread went? Guess not. [action=phantomofthenet]steps out of the way...[/action]
I saw that story on all the news shows this evening in their "Oh God, Oh God, We're All Going To Die" segement of the nightly news.
One of the hospitals in my hometown is notorious for Staph infections. At one point, one of the funeral home directors told my dad that they were getting a lot of patients from the cardiac wing of that hospital as a result of staph.
Staph infections are notorious in hospitials, and this is long before the old too many antibotic argument. Pop ended up with osteomelitus in his leg from a filthy hospital he fought for 30 fucking years. Daily bandages, alcohol wash down of the area, days he was hobbled worse than others but he would not let them take it off. He contained it as well as he could. Not sure how it is today treatment wise, but back then if air hits that crap it's off to the races, it will spread like wildfire. When he went in for a bypass, the doctors didn't isolate it when they were looking for a vein to use and it spread to his other leg. That pretty much sealed his fate. I watched a guy on the tube last night who ended up with an infection in his knee aquired from a hospital. He ended up having his leg amputated. While part of me wants to say pussy, the more sensable me says ya gotta do what ya gotta do, and if you can live without it it probably is the beter approach now that ADA has made access a reality. I took an old friend to the hospital because he was so damn sick it was the only option. His fear of hospitals was so great he broke out into a severe sweat as soon as we crossed the threshold. I was one of the few people who fully understood why.
