Epidemic of fatal infections in American hospitals

While Americans are sending their naïve, unescorted teen-age daughters off to Third-World countries to party, and perhaps to be abducted and killed, they are institutionalizing Third-World conditions in this country. According to Betsy McCoughey’s op-ed in today’s New York Times, over a hundred thousand people die of infections each year in U.S. hospitals due to unclean conditions. One leading cause is that doctors and nurses are not sufficiently washing their hands. Interestingly, a similar story about deadly infectious diseases in British hospitals is covered today by the BBC.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 06, 2005 02:32 PM | Send