THIS SHOULD HELP REDUCE INFECTIONS LIKE MRSA AND C. DIFICILE: Admitted to Your Bedroom: Some Hospitals Try Treating Patients at Home. Plus: “Hospitals help you, but there’s so much noise that you can’t sleep and you’re lonely.” That’s the truth; I wrote about it here.

I remember in some science fiction story or other — I think it was Neil Smith’s The Probability Broach — the doctor recoiled in horror at the outdated practice of putting sick people in hospitals, where they were surrounded by other sick people and germs would tend to accumulate.