Doug, I’m a physician. Can I get suspended for five days with pay for pissing in a patients surgical wound? Waddy outthink?
If I boiled or field treated the water from that lake I'd drink it. Utility processing is even more extensive. My septic tank and drain field is in my front yard a few feet from the house and my 180 ft well is behind my house about 6 ft but cased to 80 ft. I had it tested it is as pure as can be.
Reality? Which poses a greater health risk? A patient drinking water from that reservoir properly treated which most patients do so daily? Or is it a Staph infection from a hospital including the OR or nursing home environment? I know that answer and so do you. The water is far less likely to do any harm.
As a kid back in the 1960's and 70's I swam in creeks and lakes that had every thing a person could imagine draining off into them from farms. It was rural farm country. I also swam in city swimming pools where hundreds of kids swam in at the pool. I survived and to be honest I can't remember one kid getting sick from it.
I don't think it's quite the same thing. And what is urine, after all? Take the water out of it and what do you have left, and in what quantity? Measure out those components in dry form, sprinkle them in a multi-million gallon reservoir and nobody would get worked up, so long as they didn't know they originated with urine. Urine is looked upon as disgusting, and people react emotively to the idea of consuming it, even in amounts so small as to be nonexistent. It's very much like the "pink slime" scandal, which pretty much shut down a viable industry.
>> pissing in a patients surgical wound <<
I’m not a medical person, but I’ve heard the following:
Because almost all urine is sterile, the military teaches soldiers that in a battlefield emergency, urine may be used to clean wounds.
Did your medical training teach you about the safety and efficacy of using urine to clean wounds?
Inquiring minds want to know. Seriously!