As a nurse MRSA is FRIGHTENING. If you need surgery try to make it outpatient if at all possible. The worst place to be is a hospital, and I work in one. I am appalled when I see infants allowed to crawl on the floor of hospital waiting rooms.
In nursing homes and LTC, it's becoming more and more common.
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Used to see patients with MRSA placed in special rooms with special routines near CCU.
Now I see them out on the reg. patient med surg floors, with relatives coming and going at will.
Disgraceful.