Why the Superbugs Are Winning

Townhall.com ^ | May 24, 2017 | Betsy McCaughey

[Axenolith]

An epic method of keeping healthcare costs down. If the death rate for entering a hospital starts to approach 10-20% you can bet your ass people will make lifestyle changes and try to stay out!

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[Kaslin]

It’s called liberalism.

[RegulatorCountry]

I suspect we’re eventually going to discover that gold and silver weren’t prized throughout recorded history just because of rarity and beauty, but because they’re powerful antimicrobials.

To quote The Teacher in Ecclesiastes, that which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.

[mewzilla]

There are lots of people/places/things in a hospital you can’t autoclave. :-)

[rdcbn]

A lot of these superbugs are becoming resistant because of the irresponsible behavior in the gay community.

HIV infected people get these bugs and spread them to other gays.

Irresponsible doctors pump the men with potent antibiotic cocktails but the patients continue their sexual behavior and spread the increasingly resistant microbes to others before the infections are totally eradicated.

The men also often discontinue drug therapy as soon as major symptoms become tolerable and long before the infections are properly eradicated and resume their risky behavior to become disease vectors within the gay community.

They then spread these drug resistant microbes to hospitals during one of their frequent bouts with anyone of a number of acquired infections due to their immune compromised systems.

The gay community has vastly accelerated the pace of evolution of drug resident strains of many serious microbes.

[dfwgator]

What is? is. What was? will be. What will be *was*, but will be again.

[Boogieman]

If a fungus is small enough, it is a germ.

[Justa]

“Born with a silver spoon in the mouth” isn’t a meaningless saw.

I use nano-silver to alleviate diabetes symptoms. 16 oz. of 40 ppm before bed and again when I wake up does wonders.

[Boogieman]

That’s great for instruments and stuff, but it’s not really feasible to take apart the plumbing and furniture and run it through an autoclave.

[Slyfox]

I was referring to scopes and stuff that should be autoclaved.

I worked in an isolation ward where we had to gown up and double-glove and sometimes double-face mask. We were aware of everything that could be contaminated.

One of the problems is when the housekeeping staff gets lax on cleaning a room when the patient leaves.

[Slyfox]

See #31.

[mewzilla]

Well, that’s why I mentioned people. The human element is the problem: ingnorance and/or non-compliance with infection control procedures. By all kinds of people, visitors, housekeeping, medical providers.

[Slyfox]

The info from the article implied that there are those who are not interested in preventing old people from getting sicker. If they really wanted to clean things up someone would be bearing down on the correct measures and it would be a done deal. But, people are lazy and when they take on the attitude that “old people are just going to die anyways,” then we’ve got some real big problems.

[mewzilla]

Well, not just lazy. One of my big pet peeves is long fingernails and/or artificial nails on medical providers. That’s not laziness as much as vanity, and unwillingness by higher ups to lay down the law.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Your argument is scientifically sound and cogent.

[Pirate Ragnar]

“”Stay away from the hospital. They’ve got germs in there that you can’t find anyplace else in town!”

I recently had successful surgery. I then caught C-dif in the hospital. It is a toxigenic bacteria which causes infection and inflammation of the bowel. I’ve been sick for 5 weeks and now am taking a new medication, Dificid. The copay for this medicine is $1300.00 for 10 days.

Maybe if I need surgery again, I’ll go to Israel.

[Moltke]

he deadliest superbug yet

No kidding. IT JUST ATE THE "T"! Aieeeee!

[Moltke]

It was first described in 2009.

If so, how was Israel, per the article, able to address the problem starting in 2007? I mean, they had to know what to look for, right?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I quoted Dr. Mendelsohn, who passed away in 1988.
He wrote a book in the late 70’s called Confessions
of a Medical Heretic where he challenged a lot of the
medical industry’s self-promoting mythology. He toured
heavily to promote the book, and was quite entertaining
(missed his calling as a Borscht Belt Comic apparently).
He dropped dead at age 62, a fact which the medical
industry uses to discredit his work.