Yuk yuk:
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The Joint Commission, the accrediting agency, found that caregivers at MGH weren’t washing their hands as often as they should, weren’t filling out medical records completely, weren’t making sure that patients on pain medication were feeling better, and weren’t checking on the drugs that patients were taking before they entered the hospital. [my emphasis]
And oh yeah, MGH — how about disclosing those infection rates?
A couple guys who have served in Iraq, and apparently Iraqis use their hand to wipe their ass in the toilet and then just like wash it in a bucket because toilet paper isn’t a prevalent custom.
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Mayhaps this is the cause of this Onion article.
you exercise extreme caution when you shake their hands, just in case they shook hands of an Iraqi. Reminds me of an old SNL skit…
Arabs declined to shake hands years ago. They knew where the hand had been.
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Interesting infection control study just two years or so ago. They took ties from physicians who had just done rounds and cultured them. Turns out the ties (neckties) were infested with Staph,Pseudomonas, gram + and gram – bugs, and other very nasty things. Physicians and nursing staff are still not in the habit of compulsive hand washing.
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If anyone had any idea how much documentation that is required it would amaze you. If you did all documentation to the letter you would not have five minutes to spend with the PT. All this paperwork is soley to defend yourself from predatory tort lawyers like John Edwards.
Enough with the Edwards tort crap. I lived in North Carolina when he was a trial lawyer, and he did some great work. Were all his cases great? I don’t know. Were some of his courtroom antics a little eyebrow raising? For me, yeah.
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But the Sta-Rite case was a slam dunk so far as this non-legally-trained person could tell, and Edwards did the right thing there. As for the Antabuse case — I’m no doctor, so I have no choice but to believe that the facts presented convinced a jury that the person was a victim of an incorrect prescription. The Jennifer Campbell case: I think it’s just fine that he established a precedent that the hospital must ensure that people undergoing medical procedures must understand the risks of those procedures, in broad terms.
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There are plenty of tort lawyers who chase any ambulance. I’ve seen no evidence that Edwards was that kind of attorney.
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P.S. I haven’t chosen a Democrat to support for 08, but I’m not currently leaning toward Edwards.