More Lethal ... Most Lethal

[palani]

I guess the issue is not media worthy?

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/easiest-cheapest-way-stay-healthy


If doctors and nurses were more diligent about hand hygiene, up to 80,000 Americans lives would be saved each year.

...with 73 percent of pediatric ICU physicians claiming that they soaped up between patients, but when the MDs were secretly observed, only 10 percent actually washed.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your unwashed physicians yearning to breathe clean"

[palani]

Society has always rewarded thusly those who try to save lives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis


In 1865 János Balassa wrote a document referring Semmelweis to a mental institution. On July 30 Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra lured him, under the pretense of visiting one of Hebra's "new Institutes", to a Viennese insane asylum located in Lazarettgasse (Landes-Irren-Anstalt in der Lazarettgasse).[6]:293 Semmelweis surmised what was happening and tried to leave. He was severely beaten by several guards, secured in a straitjacket and confined to a darkened cell. Apart from the straitjacket, treatments at the mental institution included dousing with cold water and administering castor oil, a laxative. He died after two weeks, on August 13, 1865, aged 47, from a gangrenous wound, possibly caused by the beating. The autopsy revealed extensive internal injuries, the cause of death pyemia—blood poisoning.[7]:76–78

[joboo]

If I worked in a hospital, I'd want to wash my hands all the time simply for my own well being.

Head shake..

[Hatha Sunahara]

I try to avoid going to any hospital for treatment as much as I possibly can.


Hatha

[palani]

I try to avoid going to any hospital for treatment as much as I possibly can.


Hatha

In that article on Dr Semmelweis they point out that women would attempt to give birth in the street rather than the hospital. They had a better survival rate doing this.