05/17/2016
"When the emergency room doctor pulled the blanket aside, looked at my elephant-size inflamed leg and said, 'Whoa!' I knew that wasn’t a good sign."
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/picking-up-an-infection-in-the-hospital/?_r=0
Like most people, I had long heard about the dangers of contracting infections in hospitals. But I never took them seriously until I entered the world of the sick.