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You never hear patients, including your Aunt Helen whose gall bladder was removed last January, talking about their ‘nosocomial infections.’ They may know they ‘got an infection in the hospital,’ and maybe even realize it’s sort of related to the hospitalization itself. But that’s it. ‘Nosocomial infection’ is—oops I mean WAS– a term kind of shrouded in mystery. Thank goodness for that. But now? Good grief! It’s like we’re announcing that it’s our fault!! “Health-care- associated- pneumonia?” We may as well wear t-shirts proclaiming “I am carrying germs right into your lungs.” It’s telling the entire mankind that we, members of the most highly thought of and trusted professions in the world (at least until now), are the cause of these bugs. Continue reading →