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#37 - Zubin Damania, M.D.: Revolutionizing healthcare one hilariously inspiring video at a time

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The Dangers of the Hospital

The research I've looked into this is you have about a six month window of susceptibility to tendon injury following fluoroquinolone. What we saw more often was a higher incidence of C. diff, C. difficile and a bowel infection. In fact, I had a patient who died of it, coded in the CT scanner, and had a huge paraculonic abscess from C. diff. And I remember telling his son who was a marathon runner that his dad had died. The hospital is a disastrous zone of chaos, of infection, of errors, of poor system design, of lack of coordination, and of expense that doesn't need to be done.

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