Dr. Betsy McCaughey, a friend of MRSA Resources and founder of The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), had an article published in the New York Times last week taking hospitals and the CDC to task and wondering why they haven’t made the simple changes which will drastically reduce these life threatening antibiotic resistant infections from occurring.
Treating hospital infections costs an estimated $30.5 billion a year in the United States. Prevention, on the other hand, is inexpensive and requires no capital outlays. A pilot program at the University of Pittsburgh found that screening tests, gowns and other precautions cost only $35,000 a year, and saved more than $800,000 a year in infection costs. A review of similar cost analyses, published in The Lancet in September, concluded that M.R.S.A. screening increases hospital profits — as it saves lives.
Yet, for a decade, the C.D.C. has rebuffed calls for screening, most recently from a committee of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiologists of America. C.D.C. officials claim that more research is needed to prove the benefits of screening. More research cannot hurt, but we know enough already to move ahead. Source
Dr. McCaughey likely knows the reasons behind the CDC being so lax - more so than I do. To me it is a mystery why they wouldn’t make the seemingly small effort to keep their patients healthy. This is the part of MRSA that invites conspiracy theorizing, and quite honestly, I don’t know any other reasoning that makes sense. What do you think -is it a conspiracy? By whom and for what purpose?
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MRSA Notes » Louisville, KY Attorneys Drop MRSA Cases // Nov 24, 2006 at 8:43 am
[...] There is a mighty lot of talk amongst the MRSA community about why they cannot find an attorney to take an MRSA case against the hospitals. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist (again), there IS some reason they won’t. Maybe hospitals are just too well financed and protected by the law, or maybe they have leg breakers (ha) - who knows. At any rate, two Louisville attorneys, Joseph White and Michael O’Connell, have stepped down from several MRSA cases against Jewish Hospital, and this is why: [...]
s // Oct 23, 2007 at 12:19 am
see “chemtrails”. also, the military regularly field tests various biological agents to gauge the spread pattern and effects on the population. that’s not a theory, though, it’s just not common knowledge. i went to the e.r. to get a (mrsa) cyst treated, and they made no statements that would lead me to believe that mrsa is in anyway anything more than a minor nuisance. i’ve gotten it a few times. not once have they shown any concern that i may spread it. and i’ve also noticed that it has become a bit of an epidemic. i know several people that have had mrsa.
CARY G DEAN // Oct 23, 2007 at 5:55 am
Hi
I’m an Investigatve Alternative health researcher from England, would you please go to these important link’s for the true cure for MRSA, please watch the BBC Horizon film “The- virus- that -cures”, this virus is extracted from the sewerage pipe that flow’s from an infected hospital and is the cure, note the statement at the end of the film, this is why the west is ignorant of this important research, also note how grotty the hospital is, hospital’s that are too sterile are making the problem worse.
http://www.phageinternational.com/phagetherapy/whitepapers.htm
http://www.georgiapromo.info/virus.html
http://www.videosift.com/video/Phage-The-Virus-that-Cures
Thankyou
Yours
Cary G Dean
Christy // Jan 14, 2010 at 7:06 pm
I have had MRSA since Feb 2009. Every time I think I’ve gotten rid of the infection it seems to come back in a different place. The doctors tell me I must have a carrier around me!? No one else in my family has had it but me. I had to have a cyst cut out of my leg that the MRSA was around and know im scared every time a bump comes up. Will I ever get all the way rid of this or will I always have it? Im always tired and wore out and I get sick of it. And when I went to the hospital before my surgry to have them put me on a drip they told me it wasn’t infected enough and put me on more antibiotics. I have been on 2 antibiotics and the ointment that I have to put in my nose. And I was wondering when my amune system will increase? Thank you, Christy
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