Hospital Persuasive Speech
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Sophomore year of high school, I was lifting weights on a Sunday afternoon at a local gym. I was finishing my last set of shoulder press, when I felt a sharp pain in my back. I left the gym that day and felt tired, but thought nothing of it.
B. Growing increasingly weak, I went to the doctor a few days later and found out I had punctured my lung. I would require immediate surgery in order to save my right lung. I began to feel scared. I had never had surgery before. And I knew infections were common. I also knew that my surgery would be very expensive.
C. I was right to be afraid. Nosocomial infections, AKA hospital acquired infections, are common during both surgeries, and normal everyday doctor visits. Currently, there are no uniform infection prevention programs for every hospital in America. Today I would like to talk to you all about the key economic issues facing hospital acquired infections, As well as the things you all should look for in order to better protect yourself.
II. ECONOMICS
A. Some health care experts oppose an increase in sanitation methods within a hospital environment, because of the believed high initial program startup costs. Rebecca R. Roberts, who is affiliated with the Department of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Disease at Cook Country Hospital, at Rush University in Chicago, is the …show more content…
Betsy McCaughey, author of the book entitled Unnecessary Deaths: The Human and Financial Costs of Hospital-Acquired Infections, states that hospital infections are more than thirty billion dollars annually of the nation’s hospital bills, a large percent of which could be prevented with early screening. She observes that seventy percent of Staph infections could be prevented with a simple staph-test kit, an inexpensive and easily administered test. Finally, McCaughey, who is Founder and Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, elaborates that only a nasal swab is needed to test, and the kit costs twenty
A. Sophomore year of high school, I was lifting weights on a Sunday afternoon at a local gym. I was finishing my last set of shoulder press, when I felt a sharp pain in my back. I left the gym that day and felt tired, but thought nothing of it.
B. Growing increasingly weak, I went to the doctor a few days later and found out I had punctured my lung. I would require immediate surgery in order to save my right lung. I began to feel scared. I had never had surgery before. And I knew infections were common. I also knew that my surgery would be very expensive.
C. I was right to be afraid. Nosocomial infections, AKA hospital acquired infections, are common during both surgeries, and normal everyday doctor visits. Currently, there are no uniform infection prevention programs for every hospital in America. Today I would like to talk to you all about the key economic issues facing hospital acquired infections, As well as the things you all should look for in order to better protect yourself.
II. ECONOMICS
A. Some health care experts oppose an increase in sanitation methods within a hospital environment, because of the believed high initial program startup costs. Rebecca R. Roberts, who is affiliated with the Department of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Disease at Cook Country Hospital, at Rush University in Chicago, is the …show more content…
Betsy McCaughey, author of the book entitled Unnecessary Deaths: The Human and Financial Costs of Hospital-Acquired Infections, states that hospital infections are more than thirty billion dollars annually of the nation’s hospital bills, a large percent of which could be prevented with early screening. She observes that seventy percent of Staph infections could be prevented with a simple staph-test kit, an inexpensive and easily administered test. Finally, McCaughey, who is Founder and Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, elaborates that only a nasal swab is needed to test, and the kit costs twenty