Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Precaution is better than cure.
When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.
In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.
Prevention is better than cure.
Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.
We have learned a lot about how to treat Ebola, how to ensure that the people caring for people with Ebola do so minimizing their risk of infection.
I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.