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September
4, 2006:
How Not To Get Sick In The Hospital
Interview
with Dr. Michael Roizen, author of You:
The Smart Patient
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Mike
Carruthers:
Everyone goes to the hospital, either as a patient or as a
visitor, and it's the little things you don't think about that
can make you sick.
Dr. Michael Roizen:
The dirtiest thing - the most infected thing in the hospital
- is the tv remote control; but it's simple - just put a glove
over it and you'll avoid all the chances of getting infected.
Of course you have to change the glove any time anyone other than
you touches it.
Dr. Michael Roizen,
author of the book You:
The Smart Patient…
By the way, the
second worst one is generally the phone and even if you have
a cell phone, it gets pretty infected. So, you want to either
clean that off or put a glove over it when you use it.
Dr. Roizen says
patients and visitors can transfer germs to each other all the
time in the hospital.
Your visitor
to your room comes in and is carrying germs and because they
shake your hand or because they hug you, you get their germs.
That's not to say that you don't want to have hugs and you don't
want to have visitors - you do, but the first visitor you have
should be one who buys you one of the lotions that you put on
everybody's hand, including all of your visitors so that they
can clean their hands of germs that are likely to infect you.
And Dr. Roizen
believes whenever you go to the hospital you should always get
a second opinion.
That's because
30% of the time second opinions will change treatment and doctors
actually like second opinions.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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