Posted on 10/14/2007 1:17:11 PM PDT by chessplayer
Unclean and uncaring nurses in the U.K. are blamed may have spread superbugs that led the deaths of the patients they were charged with caring for.
The nurses are accused of not washing their hands and of leaving patients lying in soiled beds. They were cited in an official report blaming mismanagement for the deaths of 90 people who contracted a bacterial infection in hospitals in southern England.
The report into the spread of the highly contagious bacterium said nurses at three hospitals run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust were often too busy to wash their hands and left patients in their own excrement.
In recent years, Britain's superbug infection rates of bacteria like Clostridium difficile and MRSA have skyrocketed. In the 1990s, only 5 percent of in-hospital blood infections were from MRSA, the deadly bacteria resistant to nearly every available antibiotic. In past years, that figure has jumped to more than 40 percent. Critics blame the rise on overstretched hospitals that do not have enough money or capacity to catch superbug infections early.
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Socialized medicine at work.
Socialized medicine ..............................
Beat me by 16 seconds : )
< / sarc > Like I need one
“. Critics blame the rise on overstretched hospitals that do not have enough money or capacity to catch superbug infections early.”
That doesn’t happen in a free market.
I'm sure Hillary care will take care of it.
I don’t know if this is more disgusting or frightening! Probably both.
Florence Nightingale must be rolling in her grave!!!!
“I’m sure Hillary care will take care of it.”
Yeah, there’ll be a permanent embargo on news stories reporting anything negative about it.
you can have all the science, all the fancy antibiotics but if you don’t even wash your hands you can end up dead.
One hears how much less the British pay as a % of GDP than Americans on health care. Perhaps, there is a lesson here. If their system is so underfunded, what is necessary to bring the standard of care up to the level to prevent such tragedies?
They always blame nurses. Better than doctors.
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Mrsa and C-diff are really taking off everywhere. Even young people are contacting these diseases.
A few years ago, probably the early 90’s, approximately 70 nurses were accused by the ID doctor of the hospital of infecting patients with MRSa. Each nurse had her nose swabbed and tests run on the contents. No positive results was the outcome. The doctors were not tested. How cool is that?
Beat ya by sixteen seconds, nyah-nyah...
That’s disgusting
Ouch!
I am not surprised. Not knowing anyone in the medical field, I just would not know. But, that does run with the usually crap people run into in life.
And that is true about these superbugs being everywhere. I hear that downtown LA’s skid row is a good place to catch these bugs. But I have not heard that young people are catching them as well. Horrors. Is another plague upon us?
What’s the problem here? They just freed up 90 more hospital beds! And look at how much money they’re saving the government... With those nasty sick people gone, that money can be used for “the chil-run.”
Mark
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