MRSA Notes

“It’s been escalating astronomically,” said Burmeister, who is also an epidemiologist at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. “The biggest problem isthe level of knowledge among doctors. They are looking at it and sayingit looks like a brown spider bite and then they don’t treat it in anappropriate manner.”

One of his patients, a woman from Waterloo who didn’t want her namepublished, was misdiagnosed several times, suffering from large,painful boils for a year before she was successfully treated. The boilsspread across her abdomen, back and upper legs.

“A doctor in the emergency room told me it was a spider bite, not toworry about it,” she said. “He absolutely wouldn’t treat it as anythingother than a spider bite. I was furious when I left the hospital.”

 

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