lostjumper
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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This is usually the hospital's fault and it is inexcusable.
There has been an enormous emphasis on preventing infections after surgery and overwhelmingly the culprit has been failure to follow simple, but effective, safety procedures on the part of hospital personnel.
I work at a Hospital. We have an extremely low MRSA rate because they drill into everyone here how easily rampant infections can become. You are right, usually this is the hospitals fault. They didn't sterilize equipment correctly, or a nurse failed to wash his/her hands before changing a dressing...etc. Many times it comes down to laziness.
I know no one wants to hit the panic button, but this is actually a very serious issue. We over use anti-biotics here in the US, to the point that the infections are now highly resistant to drugs, and now almost immune. If they've gone bak into his knee twice, mostly likely this means he has an infection highly resistant to drugs and they are trying to clean it out. This does not have a good success rate.
On a side note, if I were the pats, I would be absolutely livid with the Hospital that Brady had the procedure done at. I don't think you can just blame the doctors though. They might not be the culprits in this situation.