I contracted my ha-MRSA(hospital acquired) at Kaiser Santa Teresa while
being treated for a foot infection. The podiatry department does take
precautions as far as MRSA patients whose file identifies them....BUT I
recently had appointments with my primary care physician and my
gynecologist, and sad but true, neither department gave a hoot about my
MRSA. That's most likely why patients are contracting it more and more
at the hospital. I don't know if it's ignorance, plain lack of educating
the staff, or some other excuse. The podiatry department cleans the
examining room thoroughly when my visit is done...there is a marker
placed on the door that tells the staff that I am a MRSA patient. The
other departments do absolutely nothing...in fact, my primary care
physician aside from reluctantly listening to my heart, ignored a list I
had brought with me of issues I wanted addressed. Referrals, paperwork,
prescriptions....no answers...and ran an hour and a half late...just in
time for all the depts to be shut down...ex-rays and lab closed.
I told her I've had a cough since my January hospital stay...she says a
cough that lasts that long must be an allergy! Really????? Wasted my $30
and I did NOT book a return appointment.
It seems like I sure suffer a lot at the expense of not getting proper
care.


--- In MRSA@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Ann Bernard" <mbernard@...> wrote:
>
> As a hospital employee for 36 yrs.....MRSA concerns us as well. People
bring it into the hospital unbeknownst to us many times.
> There is a strain that is easily picked up places such as grocery stor
carts....door knobs, etc.
> BUT....I can say get your immune system normalized. People do not have
the immune function we shoudl have. A good functioning immune system can
"prevent" illness of varying degrees. I teach wellness in my off hours
as it gives me great pleasure to help people stay healthy and decrease
risk of disease.
> To your health!
> Mary Ann
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: "bweisbachbooks" bweisbachbooks@...
> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:57:23 -0700
> To: MRSA@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MRSA] New to MRSA Support Group
>
> > I am new here and need information. I contracted MRSA Feburary,
2006
> > and have not been the same since. I have undergone 7 surgeries and
am
> > facing my 8th soon. This web-site is a God send. We need to fight
> > for more readily information to be available to us with MRSA.
> > We may just be a number to the hospital staff, but we are not
numbers,
> > we have patient rights and need to know when and how we contracted
> > MRSA and to stop it from happening to other innocent patients.
> > Beverly Weisbach
> >
> >
> >
>