“I want them to pay for what they have done. I have lost my husband. He went in for a prick on his toe and now he’s dead. ”

Wow! The Monkey crap is infectious like the bird flu. Now they’re suing in Great Britain based on outcome and not based on negligence. Doc Elliot and CJD should stop spending their afternoons jerking and head overseas.

There is no point to national health care. Everyone will still want it all, want it all free, and want something when there is a bad outcome.

Most MRSA in a hospital walks in off the street. People who have taken antibiotics at home for whatever reason will have their natural complement of bacteria altered and some resistance will be present even with one course. Sometimes they manage to select for MRSA.

MRSA infections in the hospital are not so much acquired there, as they become apparent there. Patients become more vulnerable to their own, or their families bacteria.

At my children’s hospital patients identified with MRSA are placed on isolation. Health care workers gown and glove for all contact. Oddly, the parents of the kids, whom we can assume are also carriers, have no restrictions whatsoever, not just for contact with their own children, but for moving around the hospital and sharing their MRSA with everyone and everything.

The only way to tackle the antibiotic resistance problem is to reduce the vastly wasteful and unnecessary antibiotic use in the community. Fully 95% of antibiotics have no reasonable clinical indication. Yet, the doc had better prescribe it ‘just incase’.

Yes, your professional incompetence is all the fault of the victims who might file suit as a result of your negligence.