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On the cusp of new revelations
I wonder why university dental clinics are featuring prominently in this flu narrative.
Is it because they're a high-risk place for flu transmission?
Because they're normally more quick to identify infection?
Because one clinic happened to detect it and the others (or authorities over them) have been super-sensitized because of that?
It must bite to work in a dental clinic during flu season
Think of how the flu is spread and think of the class of people who are right in people's mouths all day long.
I know, not the most incisive idea, by gum, but it's the best I can do.
Way to drill down
to the root of the story.
Dental schools' clinics. Tufts. BU. Harvard. Forsyth Clinics.
Dental schools' clinics are notorious for not disclosing their infections rates and serving enormous numbers of patients. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center did disclose their infections rates and the rates immediately went down. The North American movement for medical centers including dental schools' clinics to disclose their infections rates is an advocacy movement that will improve healthcare. At our dental schools' clinics faculty instructors go from patient to patient double gloving but not washing, a poor example for student dentists,
see also
http://www.stophospitalinfections.org/learn.html
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine clinics
http://dental.tufts.edu
Boston University School of Dental Medicine clinics
http://dental.bu.edu
Harvard School of Dental Medicine clinics
http://www.hsdm.harvard.edu
Forsyth Dental Hygiene clinics
http://www.mcphs.edu/about_mcphs/mcphs_in_the_comm...
Good one!
Ha, ha, Adam. Funny.
I would like to suggest that everyone, from now on, not call it "swine flu". You should call it "DEADLY swine flu". Otherwise, it just seems kind of lame, people are losing interest.
Or I could make like the Herald and call it:
KILLER FLU!
Who started the flu?
Follow the money trail: who benefits?
Oh, that one's easy
The Canadian Tourism Commission.
I have an appointment at BU
I have an appointment at BU dental tomorrow afternoon.
Pulp thriller
An APPOINTMENT with KILLER FLU!!!
Ill report back in 5-10 days
Ill report back in 5-10 days to see if my cavity filling came with a bonus