According to the study, patients who underwent invasive surgery during their initial hospitalization were more likely to pick up a secondary infection while in the hospital, and elective surgery patients were at even higher risk of nosocomial infection. The researchers estimated that 290,000 patients in U.S. hospitals picked up sepsis, or blood poisoning, during their hospitalization in 2006, and 200,000 developed pneumonia.
my argument is that there are things to consider in medical care, for example if the stupid patient does not take their medicine at home they come back and need $5,000 worth of new insurance costs - who pays? It is insurance either Blue Cross or Medicare. Who should pay? Now if the hospital sends out a care giver and they spend $5,000 a month for an aide to look at twenty or thirty people who saves... people who might have to pay the government or the rising costs of insurance - you and ME!! Do you think every person that leaves the hospital is of such a sound mind that they will not forget some instructions?