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MRSA has become very common in hospitals in the past decade. If it doesn't get into the lungs, or the blood, which is extremely rare, it is treatable. Most of the time it is on the surface of the skin. It is an epidemic in American hospitals. So many people think hospitals are the safest germ free environment around. Actually, the reverse is true. Hospitals are germ infested filthy environments and MRSA is the "bug" of choice. I know of a hospital in Indiana where MRSA was so bad that they had to close the hospital and move to a new location. They donated the hospital building to a nonprofit organization that is going in sterilzing and renovating before they can move in.


how right you are, dw. nosocomial infections are rampant in the medical field right now. and these infections are moving outside the hospitals. i have a student who just had his 45th abcess removed. needless to say, he had hernia surgery a few years ago. none of the medications have touched the MRSA. his wife and daughter now have abcesses popping up.

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I have had many cases in medical malpractice involving MRSA. The key is to keep the infected area clean and dry and to make sure the meds are working. If they are not, they need to switch her right away. We will keep her in our prayers.


when those in the medical field begin to take standard precautions serious again, then these law suits will not be needed. i see medical personnel from all departments, entering and leaving the rooms of patients and never washing their hands between patients. they are leaving not only themselves wide open for infections but they are transferring these infections to other patients. as a nurse it is sad to say but it is pure carelessness on the part of medical personnel.