Patients in Peril?: 'Superbug' Spurs Patient's Activism
Columbia Daily Tribune › March 06, 2011
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Jeanine Thomas walks with a limp. Her ankle joint was destroyed by a methiciillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection -- commonly known as MRSA -- after surgery to repair a badly broken ankle in 2000.
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Patients in Peril?: 'Superbug' Spurs Patient's Activism
Since then, she worked with then-Sen. Barack Obama to help pass her state's Hospital Report Card Act that requires, among other things, screening of all intensive care unit patien...
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