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Dec 09, 2012 06:36PM
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I have an attic fan that works wonders for cross ventilation.
Surgeon's infected hands led to hospital staph outbreak"Five heart patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center contracted staph infections after a doctor operated on them with bacteria on his hands, the hospital said this week.
The doctor, whom the hospital declined to name, had an inflammation on his hand when he implanted replacement heart valves into five patients last June.
He wore gloves, but they developed microscopic tears, the hospital said, causing the infection to pass to the patients....."
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow...
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The infections caused four of the patients to need a second operation, officials said.
Presumably the hospital covered the costs of those operations in full....did not bill insurance for them....
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“I really didn’t think anything of it,” said a resident, Ray Rinaldi. “You hear gun shots around here all the time.”
What?? Really?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyr...
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You would think living in Chicago I would have heard it here, but I never have. My neighborhood doesn't have a lot of gun action. Luckily.
We're surrounded by open desert. We hear gunfire quite frequently.
I sometimes hear gunfire when I'm at my parent's house. Usually it's people shooting hares or foxes. I saw a hare get shot last week. The hunters only got it on the fifth shot. After each shot it just kept running (it was easy to spot in the snow) and I was rooting for it to escape, but it didn't make it.
Shooting foxes is not ok. The rabbit is a different matter. People buy meat at the grocery store. The animals most likely died from a boltgun to the head while being held terrified in a vise.
Yet when a hunter kills a rabbit (or a deer or any game animal) to put in his freezer, he's seen as a very bad guy.
WTF?
Scout wrote: "Yet when a hunter kills a rabbit (or a deer or any game animal) to put in his freezer, he's seen as a very bad guy."By whom?
I agree that's the point. It's not a perfect scenario (hunters taking up the slack for the lack of predators) but it seems to be the best we are able to do.
People always want to debate or argue with me when they find out I am a vegetarian (which happens after they inquire about my food or I politely turn down some offer of food). I never comment on what people are eating unless provoked and even then I do it sparingly or jokingly. It always amazes me how aggressive they get about my diet. They always act like I might die at any second for lack of the consumption of meat.
Are you trying to ruffle my tail feathers?
Ha! Bdubs!People have tried to offer alternative meats! And vegetables cooked in fat back.
::wrinkles nose::
Bluish?!::turns green::
No wonder you did not like it.
Hey, we are not the ones eating bluish tofu.
That was nice! People do not like to hear that I am raising my son vegetarian. I want him to make his own choice about it when he is old enough but I want him to know there is alternative lifestyles. Many people exclaim that he should eat meat, that he is probably not getting enough protein. He is a healthy little boy who is active, strong and full of laughter. This, alone, tells me we are doing just fine.
Vegetarians, unite! We have hijacked this thread. Woot!::giggles::
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