General Discussion

when Kaiser Permanente, here in Denver operated on the brain of someone that had that disease? The disease, like you said, survives high temps, so normal sterilization of instruments needed to be exposed to a separate process, by exposing the those instruments used on brain surgery to be exposed to a separate process. As I remember the process, it was done in a container that utilized high pressure of a particular gas for some period of time......?????? Well, Kaiser decided that that last procedure was not necessary and they quit doing it. They operated on the brain of someone that had that disease, failed to sterilize the instruments used according to protocol, and ended up infecting six? other brain surgery patients having used those same instruments that weren't completely sterilized, having only run them through the normal autoclave dis-infecting.....

The Feds actually SHUT DOWN ALL SURGERY at Porter's Hospital here in Denver for two months last year....Their surgeries were suddenly having a rather significant spike in Post Op Infections??????????? Seems the Corporation that owns them had decided one step in the normal sterilization of surgical instruments was un-neccessary.......................The surgeons knew something was wrong when they were reporting flys in the OR rooms, indicating that there was decaying biological "something" in the OR's that they flys were being attracted to.......

The field of medicine is not what it used to be folks............it's now a mass of humongous Corporations that own large segments of it, especially all the hospitals..........and all worshipping the "Almighty Corporate Profits" first and foremost......