Healthy thoughts

Here we are during the late summer happy in the thoughts that the News on TV and radio is all about "recovery", of the economy and by all accounts people are being allowed to borrow again! Well I thought, is this good news or not and so during this moment of thought I was drawn towards a report about a recent case at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital where several unfortunate patients were medicated to death by a so called well meaning doctor. Then it struck me, they have just built a new "super hospital" in Portsmouth and this has received wide local coverage as a pinnacle and flagship of NHS care.

So where has all the MRSA gone? Have the hygiene standards of hospitals, medical staff and visitors improved so much that the dreaded infection has been eradicated? Only recently on visiting a very ill friend of mine in hospital which caused me to notice how few doctors, if any, wore "scrubs" and how unkempt many of the nurses seemed given the emphasis on the battle against MRSA. I then reflected on when I went to have a rather minor, if not painful operation on my nose I noticed that the consultant surgeon who was going to remove the rather intrusive "lump" from my nose, was wearing the same red silk tie ( I assume consultant surgeons would not stoop to polyester ties) that he had been wearing on both initial consultations some weeks before. Coincidence, I don't think so.

It's no wonder then that some of these rampant hospital infections seem to run wild but is it not strange that since we went into recession the level of reporting these cases has all but disappeared?

So lets see more doctors, surgeons and all medical professionals working in nice clean, sterilised and hygienic "scrubs" - if I could could think of a suitable English word in place of this Americanism then I would, so I apologise to my readers who revile all such uses of Americanisms in the English language!

I am going to be looking out for MRSA reports from now on and perhaps if they start to emerge and increase in number then just may be that will signal the start of the rise from recession!