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Title: Fresh Air, Michael Berens, Kim Armstrong, and Audrey Ludmer

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Investigative reporter Michael Berens and registered nurses Kim Armstrong and Audrey Ludmer on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Berens writes for The Chicago Tribune. His series of articles (July 21-23) is about the epidemic of life-threatening infections that occur in America's hospitals. He reports that infection rates are soaring and they are exacerbated by hospital cutbacks and carelessness by doctors and nurses. Deaths caused by hospital germs are now the fourth leading cause of mortality among Americans, and can largely be prevented. Plus the problem is often kept secret by hospitals and it persists because of a lack of government oversight. Veteran registered nurses Kim Armstrong and Audrey Ludmer talk about how the nursing shortage and hospital cutbacks have affected hospital health care. (Broadcast Date: July 30, 2002)

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