Hospitals, Places Where You Go to Get Sick
It bugs me to have to visit someone in the hospital and, until recently, being bugged was a manner of speech, but it has now taken on darker implications. Hospitals have become the places where you go to get sick instead of become well.
There’s lots of reasons:
Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems that are virtually sealed in buildings where the windows no longer open. That keeps recirculated air on an endless loop, so patients end up breathing every other sick person’s exhalations.
Over use (for decades) of anti-biotics for every case of sniffles. This constancy of what amounts to prescription abuse created a whole new class of viruses that are resistant to anti-biotics and they’re killing patients.
Plain old sloppy housekeeping practices.
Doctors and nurses wearing rubber gloves to keep them safe from communicable diseases, but who don’t change gloves often enough to keep patients safe.
Not enough periodic hand washing.
Ceci Connolly’s Washington Post article points to Penns…