Re: C. difficile superbug tied to 17th Niagara death

[Guest guest]

Its nothing more than a combination of overuse of antibiotics, superpowered antibiotic cleaners in hospitals combined with patients not using the full course of the medicines and also lax personal hygiene by hospital employees. The superbugs are thus developing in the places people go to get healthy. I really think it won't be long before hospitals are again seen not as places to get healed, but places to go to die like they used to be.

In a message dated 7/8/2011 1:44:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

The Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre said four of its patients tested positive within the past few weeks, prompting officials to investigate further and call the outbreak. The other two patients are not part of the outbreak, said the centre, which is not part of the Niagara Health System.

[Guest guest]

When I was in a major hospital (Foothills Hospital in Calgary) for my heart surgery, there was an infection going around the cardiac surgery ward; one of the e. coli type I think; and the staff were washing down all the rooms, moving patients around etc etc; it was rather distressing to be essentially a prisoner there and possibly exposed to whatever it was when already weakened.

I can see why some alternate medicine practitioners caution their patents about statnard medical treatments and diseases which people catch in a hospital.

rl

'My cat Rusty is a servant of the Living God....'

adapted from a poem by Smart

To: FAMSecretSociety Sent: Friday, July 8, 2011 11:51:08 AMSubject: Re: C. difficile superbug tied to 17th Niagara death

Its nothing more than a combination of overuse of antibiotics, superpowered antibiotic cleaners in hospitals combined with patients not using the full course of the medicines and also lax personal hygiene by hospital employees. The superbugs are thus developing in the places people go to get healthy. I really think it won't be long before hospitals are again seen not as places to get healed, but places to go to die like they used to be.

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[Guest guest]

Something like that happened to my mother when she was in the hospital with a bad urinary tract infection. Some other bug was loose in the hospital but they were trying to play it cool by cleaning out rooms but telling patients it was routine. For that matter, the infection probably came from a medical exam a few weeks earlier.

When I was in a major hospital (Foothills Hospital in Calgary) for my heart surgery, there was an infection going around the cardiac surgery ward; one of the e. coli type I think; and the staff were washing down all the rooms, moving patients around etc etc; it was rather distressing to be essentially a prisoner there and possibly exposed to whatever it was when already weakened.

I can see why some alternate medicine practitioners caution their patents about statnard medical treatments and diseases which people catch in a hospital.

rl

[Guest guest]

Willaim wrote:"For that matter, the infection probably came from a medical exam a few weeks earlier. " My comment:THAT is nasty.Unfortunately, the average patient has no way to tell if staff, equipement and facilities are truly clean, or IF the examination is unseesarily rough, or if sensitive tissue is damaged accidently. On a somewhat different note, I DID change doctors at a local clinic because I felt that my MD was OK for quality of medical care BUT he spoke to me like I was an uneducated person who had no need to know what was going on with my care (he had been a medical missionary in Africa, and was highly recommended by people I knew)

Assertive I am, but did not feel it was my 'job' to teach this man how to communicate with the average Canadian patient.This was around the time we had adopted a feral cat, and I felt that our veterinarians were MUCH better at communication that this MD.This was 25 years ago... rl 'My cat Rusty is a servant of the Living God....'adapted from a poem by SmartTo: FAMSecretSociety Sent: Friday, July 8, 2011 2:02:34 PMSubject: Re: C. difficile superbug tied to 17th Niagara death

Something like that happened to my mother when she was in the hospital with a bad urinary tract infection. Some other bug was loose in the hospital but they were trying to play it cool by cleaning out rooms but telling patients it was routine. For that matter, the infection probably came from a medical exam a few weeks earlier.

When I was in a major hospital (Foothills Hospital in Calgary) for my heart surgery, there was an infection going around the cardiac surgery ward; one of the e. coli type I think; and the staff were washing down all the rooms, moving patients around etc etc; it was rather distressing to be essentially a prisoner there and possibly exposed to whatever it was when already weakened.

I can see why some alternate medicine practitioners caution their patents about statnard medical treatments and diseases which people catch in a hospital.

rl

[Guest guest]

Yes it is. Very nasty. I'm sure it was from improper cleaning of the exam equipment.

THAT is nasty.

Unfortunately, the average patient has no way to tell if staff, equipement and facilities are truly clean, or IF the examination is unseesarily rough, or if sensitive tissue is damaged accidently.