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Article: Maryland Considers Tracking Hospital Infections; Bill Would Require Keeping Data on Illnesses Patients Contract While in Facilities
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 23, 2005
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Mark Bennett went to the hospital last February with pneumonia and
never came home. When he died, four months after being admitted and
after passing through five hospitals, his body had been assaulted by
six separate bacterial infections, according to his son, Michael
Bennett. One forced doctors to amputate a leg, and another was
formally listed as the 89-year-old's cause of death.
Family members believe that the hospitals where Mark Bennett spent
the last months of his life not only did not save him from death but
actually sped his demise by failing to follow basic rules of hygiene.
"He had almost no interruption in suffering," Michael Bennett, of
Baltimore, said of his father. "It was ...
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