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MRSA: Patients revolt against hospital secrecy

November 19, 2008

A night-shift nurse slipped into Jeanine Thomas’ hospital room and whispered, “I don’t know how you’re taking this so well. If I were you, I’d be curled up in a ball crying.”

The remark mystified Thomas. She’d had ankle surgery, and yes, there had been complications. But she thought she was recovering. Was there something she didn’t know?

 

In November 2000, Thomas, then a 45-year-old antiques dealer, had slipped on ice and shattered her left ankle outside her suburban Chicago home. But days after surgery at her local hospital, the skin surrounding the incisions turned black, and her body swelled. Doctors wanted to amputate, but Thomas, an avid tennis player, refused to let them.

 

Then, a friend told Thomas about her mother’s battle with MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant germ. Their symptoms matched. Thomas confronted a doctor and learned the truth: She, too, had MRSA. Only now did the nurse’s comment make sense.

 

Read Article: Seattle Times

 

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