Hospitals Can Make You Sick

1. About 100,000 people are die dies dying die each year 2. on in to from US hospitals 3. to for at from infections that they get while they 4. are at in in the (space) hospital. Less than half that many die on US highways. The hospital deaths are due to poor housekeeping and poor hygiene. 5. Floors, walls, and doors are not do not did not is not cleaned regularly or thoroughly. 6. Room dividers are not almost just only never cleaned. 7. The carts who that with to carry food trays, 8. and the trays ourselves itself ourselves themselves , 9. are usually contaminated to from at in handling and coughing. 10. Cooks and other food handlerscan easily clean disinfect infect infects the food by not washing 11. properly before then after to using the bathroom. 12. Doctors and nurses is are do does just as guilty as other staff. 13. Doctors offen rarely always everyday clean their stethoscopes after each patient. 14. Nurses apply blood pressure cuffs to patient after patient without with is from cleaning the cuffs. 15. Doctors often put in at (space) on gloves without 16. washing his him their them hands first. 17. As a result, germs the germs a germ germ on their hands are 18. transferred to the outside of the hands hands the gloves gloves . 19. Consumer groups warn patients that they must demand cleanliness. If they see or suspect unsanitary conditions, they never must don't may tell someone immediately. 20. It could be a matter for of to in of life or death. But, as one patient said, "No way! You don't tell your boss that he has bad breath, and you don't tell your doctor that he needs to wash his hands."