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1 posted on 01/26/2005 1:14:40 AM PST by Stoat
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At my recent stay in the hospital they told me I should provide my own antibacterial liquidsoap for handwashing and showering, it cuts back on infections. I complied.


2 posted on 01/26/2005 1:16:57 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
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Hillary care making history again....


3 posted on 01/26/2005 1:17:23 AM PST by demkicker (I'm Ra th er sick of Dan)
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How does that make hospitals cleaner? Bringing some ghastly half-a-bar from home? That's cleaner?



Good grief, what the hell happened to Britain?


4 posted on 01/26/2005 1:21:03 AM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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Being a fan of reality medical shows, I caught a few over the last few years that were located in England.

I remember being struck by the difference in sterile procedures from what we see here in the States.

Some things in particular: the wards all seemed grimy and makeshift (at a "top" children's hospital") though I initially put that down to lighting issues and the like; and in surgery, people walking in and out of the operating rooms directly around in the "sterile field" (which I always thought was SACRED) and even touching or working with the patient whose body was open!

I even saw one surgeon wearing his face mask hitched UNDER his chin instead of covering the nose and mouth (which made me wonder why he bothered and to hope he didn't cough or sneeze into the patient's open wound he was digging around in).

10 posted on 01/26/2005 1:46:21 AM PST by LarkNeelie (Shock 'N Awe - liberals stunned by defeat on 11/2/04)
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In the Flagstaff Medical Center, where a dear friend had the horrible misfortune to be laid up at $1600 per day, no one on the staff would either take him to a shower or give him the werewithall to give himself a sponge bath. After four days he smelled pretty rank. The staff is perenially busy in political involvement such as destroying parking areas for bike paths, making smoking a capital offense and building a huge YMCA at taxpayers expense to provide free daycare for their kids. They have no time, evidently, for the basics of patient care. I, myself, have standing orders that I am to be transported without delay from this den of Sovietski Medicina and taken to a real hospital where they care for the basic needs of the sick. I suggest you do the same should you have the misfortune to find yourself there.


13 posted on 01/26/2005 1:54:11 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Flagstaff, AZ. Smokers not welcome. The rest get to pay 15% sales tax for bike paths.)
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I'd also have pairs of disposible gloves. Don't want to touch most surfaces in a hostpital. Handles on faucets, doors etc.... Auto on/off for facilities would help.


14 posted on 01/26/2005 1:54:17 AM PST by ProudVet77 (Survivor of the great blizzard of aught five)
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After Hillary finishes taking on the sad, tragic situation of abortion, she will turn her evil eye to health care.
Read this and be very scared. This is what awaits America if Hitlery succeeds.


28 posted on 01/26/2005 2:18:39 AM PST by PJBlogger (BEWARE HILLARY AND HER HINO)
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