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  1. 03-26-2002, 01:48 PM #1
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    Eww, don't get sick and end up at this hospital!

    I found this on Excite news...

    "Maggots Infested Noses of Two Comatose Patients

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two comatose patients had maggots growing in their noses as a result of a housekeeping lapse at a Missouri hospital, researchers said on Monday.
    A canteen and storage areas at Kansas City's Veteran's hospital were not properly cleaned after staff cuts in 1998, and the hospital hired exterminators for a massive infestation of mice.

    Scattered mouse carcasses through the hospital brought flies, which somehow invaded the hospital's intensive care unit and laid eggs in the "fetid nasal discharge" of the two comatose patients, Dr. Richard Beckendof of the Veteran's hospital wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a medical journal published by the American Medical Association.

    One patient died two days after the maggots were removed, though neither patient was believed harmed by them."
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  2. 03-26-2002, 02:58 PM #2
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    I saw that article, and immediately concluded that I wouldn't post anything so grotesque on Got|Apex.
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  3. 03-26-2002, 03:03 PM #3
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    well, at least them were comotosed and not active patients who didn't notice. that woulda been disgusting.
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    *shudder*

    that's horrible...

    don't they have people to check up on the living veggies? I mean like u roll them over for bedsores, and check to see they are still living, and check for other, forgein, living things on them....

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  5. 03-27-2002, 07:26 AM #5
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    ok, that is just sickening. i think that falls under the disgusting/gross/potty thread ban.

    j/k kim. it's not _that_ bad....but it is pretty gross
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  6. 03-27-2002, 07:46 AM #6
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    It is gross! I don't know why I posted it. Normally I wouldn't have...I must have been in a bad mood yesterday. Sorry everyone.
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    Originally posted by Kim
    It is gross! I don't know why I posted it. Normally I wouldn't have...I must have been in a bad mood yesterday. Sorry everyone.
    Kim, I hope you didn't take my post seriously. I had seen the article earlier, but I was just poking fun because you (of all people) posted it.
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    Nope, not at all! It takes alot more to hurt my feelings I was just agreeing that it was really gross.
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    Originally posted by Nija
    *shudder*

    that's horrible...

    don't they have people to check up on the living veggies? I mean like u roll them over for bedsores, and check to see they are still living, and check for other, forgein, living things on them....
    Yes, most of the time it would be done. But this was a VA hosptial. A lot of volunteers do the cleaning and not a lot of staff to supervise. The volunteers don't check/clean the patients, but VA hosptials are very understaffed and funded. They did a report on the news just the other night here in Vegas about MRIs and Xrays not being read by a radiologist for up to over a year! And that is normal.

    My dad goes through the VA system for health care. It took months between tests and his appointment to give him his heart pills. It's a system that needs to be overhauled, badly.
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