Saturday, June 23, 2007

"So, what happens ??"

"When doctors don't wash their hands?"

More from Dr. Atul Gawande's book. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, page 14 - 15.

"Each year, according to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control, two million Americans acquire an infection while they are in the hospital.

"Ninety thousand die of that infection.

"The hardest part of the infection - control team's job, Yokoe says, is not coping with the vareity of ocntagions they encounter or the panic that sometimes occurs among patients and staff.

"Instead, their geatest difficulty is getting clinicians like me to do the one thing that consistently halts the spread of infections: wash our hands."

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