Gothamist: Hospital Knew About Legionnaire's In Its Water

Ken

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:51:17 -0500

A minor point...but I assume you mean New York-Presbyterian Hospital. There's no such hospital as "Columbia Presbyterian," nor ever was (it has always been plain Presbyterian).

Dirk

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:59:16 -0500

This is why I hate hospitals.

Ragna

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:56:29 -0500

Legionnaire's disease also is present in my local hospital (a very large teaching hospital). One of the problems with hospitals is that they are perfect places for serious, opportunistic infections, such as the various forms of Staph. Being infected by one of these pathogens is one of the hazards of being in a hospital, and all of the hospitals I've worked in try incredibly hard to irradicate and/or control the spread of these pathogens. I don't see how one could prosecute a hospital for this.

Rose

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:37:02 -0500

So will Morgenthau's office investigate and, if necessary, prosecute?