
MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
How our hospitals unleashed a MRSA epidemic
Joyce Allen's sternum had to be removed after she was infected by MRSA during heart surgery. She is now disabled and on some days can't pick up her grandson, Ethan Nimmo, 4.

MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Joyce Allen's sternum had to be removed after she was infected by MRSA during heart surgery. She is now disabled and on some days can't pick up her grandson, Ethan Nimmo, 4.
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