Woman contracts flesh-eating bacteria in hospital

Several years ago, a woman had to have her arms and legs amputated after contracting flesh-eating bacteria at a hospital.

This didn't happen in some faraway, remote land. It happened in America.

In 2005, a woman went to South Seminole Hospital in Longwood, Florida, to give birth to her son. She contracted the bacteria there. She said, "I woke up from surgery and I had no arms and no legs."

The health care company wouldn't even tell her what happened - apparently to cover for its own irresponsibility. This violated state law.

Now she's settled a lawsuit for an undisclosed sum.

Some physicians won't even hospitalize patients, because of the risk of the patient getting sicker at the hospital, due to the pandemic of infections that plague American health care facilities these days.

If I ever have to be hospitalized, it may be best if it happens during an international vacation. Unless the American health care system is reformed, one takes a huge risk these days just by entering an American hospital.

(Source: http://www.wftv.com/news/19502816/detail.html;
http://www.wftv.com/news/6253589/detail.html)