The Mystery That Makes Hospitals Sick
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It's no secret that dangerous superbugs are showing up more and more in hospitals around the world. But where do they come from? How do they get into hospitals in the first place? In this episode of Prognosis, Bloomberg's Jason Gale unravels the mystery, taking us on a detective's search for the world's most deadly superbugs as they stealthily sneak into hospitals. And how one hospital has come up with a simple yet virtually foolproof safeguard against spreading those bugs once inside the building. The implications are huge for how hospitals around the world fight back against the spread of killer germs.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
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| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
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| 0:44.3 | Hospitals are where we go to get better, not sick. But the scary fact is, hospitals are some of the most hazardous places in the world. |
| 0:50.3 | On any given day, about 1 in 30 patients in the United States gets a health care associated infection. |
| 0:58.7 | Increasingly, the germs that are the hardest to treat, the ones that are killing patients the fastest, are coming from outside the hospital. |
| 1:08.2 | They're being carried in by the patients themselves. |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome to Prognosis, a podcast about health and science, medical technology, and the changes that are underway across the world. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm your host, Michelle Faye Cortez. This season, we're talking about the rising threat of superbugs, |
| 1:30.6 | bacteria that are resistant to the strongest infection-fighting medications available. |
| 1:35.8 | In this episode, Bloomberg's Jason Gale explores how one hospital became wrapped up in a global mystery |
| 1:42.3 | and how solving it created a new way to stop superbugs |
| 1:46.6 | from sneaking into the hospital and harming patients. |
| 1:50.2 | The solution is incredibly simple, |
| 1:52.8 | and it's also incredibly important. |
| 1:56.3 | These sorts of measures are what we need |
| 1:58.5 | for the war against superbugs to succeed. |
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