Patients can usually get back to normal activities and work within a few days.
He decided that maybe patients could get the attention they needed if a doctor saw a group of them all at once.
It set up a system to help patients get their insurance companies to pay for the drug.
The problem was: how did the black patient get into the hospital?
About a fourth of all hospital patients get one during a stay.
"My analysis is that in some cases, patients will get worse care and cost more money."
Unfortunately, some patients still don't get the help they need.
They are now the most common form of infection which patients get in hospital.
The object: to make sure the patients don't get too much in the way of care.
The patient was getting the best care the local doctors could provide.