And who believes the doctor never had that happen before? Until hospitals are willing to have HAI stats made public, everybody is complicit and progress is almost impossible. Unless there's enough publicity to provoke people to get their own (personal pay) testing pre-admission and again at discharge.

Wouldn't it be interesting to have 60 Minutes or some other investigative reporter send in other patients and ask the doc whether he's ever had post surgical infections before?

Sorry for your acquaintance. His life is not his own for a while to come.

Tex