> So what you’re trying to say is the fear is justified. That going in for surgery or a stay at the hospital is as much (or more) risky due to after procedure infections.
Short answer: What? No, no way.
Long answer: It depends, If you can avoid being opened sure, avoid it like the plague, I've learned that the hard way that no matter how much sterilization is done, bacteria is there, and if your body is cut there's a chance bacteria could get in, but there are cases when you have no other road, like my case. Last December I couldn't walk a single complete street, the labrum was damaged to the point that the only solution was an arthroscopy, there was no option for me to say no. My surgeon told me "patients get infected, shit happens", but on top of that I got extremely unlucky, I got the worst fucking bacteria in the universe, I had no fever and the needle that was inserted in my hip to test for bacterial growth yielded negative results.
Short answer: What? No, no way.
Long answer: It depends, If you can avoid being opened sure, avoid it like the plague, I've learned that the hard way that no matter how much sterilization is done, bacteria is there, and if your body is cut there's a chance bacteria could get in, but there are cases when you have no other road, like my case. Last December I couldn't walk a single complete street, the labrum was damaged to the point that the only solution was an arthroscopy, there was no option for me to say no. My surgeon told me "patients get infected, shit happens", but on top of that I got extremely unlucky, I got the worst fucking bacteria in the universe, I had no fever and the needle that was inserted in my hip to test for bacterial growth yielded negative results.