I believe this report....Two years ago I had surgery on my shoulder, and I came home from the hospital (actually I came out of surgery) with a staph infection. It ended up "cellulitis-staph", and I spent 13 weeks of having antibiotic IVs three times a week before it cleared up....now it "pops up" every so often and there's nothing they can do to completely stop it...seems it can be cleared up and then builds up again. I was told it was fortunate that I went for help as soon as I did---and wouldn't have done it then if it hadn't been for my physical therapist noticing and getting so concerned. She called the dr's office and they had me in emergency within the hour..... I always thought it was a little odd that I'd have to go back to the same hospital that gave it to me......??? Probably the most dangerous place we can go is the hospital....and I know too many people in the medical profession to believe they are what they think they are.!! But then, it's the "only game in town" isn't it? Doris....A Texan in Georgia..... Still shaking the family tree and dodging the nuts after 30+ years! IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Garland" <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:00 AM Subject: [BSChat] medical news Just heard on the news here in San Diego: studies show that you're more likely to die from a medical mix up than from breast cancer, a car wreck or AIDS. There's something wrong with this system. Probably a lot of things wrong. I know of one--but this is not necessarily a large part of the problem. There's lots of ways mix ups can take place. My husband tells me that, while his first wife was still alive 8-10 years ago, the nurses in N. CA were noticing that there were some relatively unqualified nurses coming along and they looked into it, trying to find out why these new nurses weren't up to snuff. Found out that the tests for becoming a nurse had been made easier by the CA state licensing board, so that nurses coming in from foreign countries would be able to pass them. At that time, most other states had a reciprocal agreement with CA, if a nurse was licensed here, the license was good in other states. I don't know if that still exists--hopefully they tightened up their requirements, but they may not be aware that CA did made licensing easier. I can understand the state wanting a constant supply of new nurses. It's hard to keep nurses for more than 5 years, since nurses' wages top out in that short a time. And then they start looking for something else. Who can blame them? Good nurses are not paid enough, that's for sure. But, there's got to be a way to sort out those who just aren't what they should be, regardless of the reason. Jan G. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237