Sniffles

“Each year, more than 2 million people in the United States acquire an infection during a hospital stay, and an estimated 90,000 people die from them — more than from AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.”

Source: Abcnews.com

Imagine if the auto industry had the same lobby doctors do watching their backs. I wonder how many less class action lawsuits against car manufacturers there might be. As it stands now, people get seriously sick; people go to the hospital. Risk of secondary infection because the janitor refuses to wash his hands? Never really considered that angle.

Well, where’s there’s blood, there’s money, and somewhere a lawyer is pondering a motion.

4 thoughts on “Sniffles

  • April 5, 2006 at 10:07 pm
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    Every time a lawyer ponders a motion, a devil gets his horns.

    … think I heard that in a movie.

  • April 6, 2006 at 10:44 am
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    The Devil is probably a lawyer by trade.

  • April 6, 2006 at 12:09 pm
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    That would certainly explain a great many intricacies of the universe.

  • April 11, 2006 at 8:43 am
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    And why everything obvious has a warning on it, yet the true hazards are undocumented. Perhaps lawyers need labels. Caution: may sue for money.

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