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UPDATED: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 17:59
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 1:28 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


In YET ANOTHER indictment of for-proft healthcare Vegas clinic may have sickened thousands
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LAS VEGAS - Nearly 40,000 people learned this week that a trip to the doctor may have made them sick. In a type of scandal more often associated with Third World countries, a Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years. The shoddy practices may have led to an outbreak of the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus and exposed patients to HIV, too.

The discovery led to the biggest public health notification operation in U.S. history, brought demands for investigations and caused scores of lawyers to seek out patients at risk for infections. Thousands of patients are being urged to be tested for the viruses. Six acute cases of hepatitis C have been confirmed. The surgical center and five affiliated clinics have been closed.

In letters that began arriving this week, patients who received injected anesthesia at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada from March 2004 to mid-January were urged to get tested for hepatitis B and C, and HIV.

... Health inspectors say they observed clinic staff using the same syringe twice to extract anesthesia from a single-dose vial, which was then used to treat more than one patient. The practice allows contaminated blood in a used syringe to taint the vial and infect the next patient. Of the six patients so far diagnosed with acute hepatitis C, five received treatment at the clinic on the same day in late September.

... In Las Vegas, clinic staff told inspectors they had been ordered by management to reuse the vials and syringes.... Investigators were told the practice was an attempt to cut costs, according to a letter of complaint from the city, which revoked the facility's business license Friday. ... The clinic's majority owner, Dipak Desai, a political contributor and member of the governor's commission on health care, has refused to comment on the allegations.



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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 2:51 PM

KIRKULES


There is nothing funny about this story, but for some reason it reminded me of a quote from 'The Man with Two Brains' with Steve Martin.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr: The only time we doctors should accept death is when it's caused by our own incompetence!
Dr. Necessiter: Nonsense! If the murder of twelve innocent people can help save one human life, it will have been worth it!

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:55 PM

CANTTAKESKY


Oh my God. That is disgusting. What is wrong with people?

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How cheap must be the material of which so many men are made!
--Henry David Thoreau

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 5:59 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Greed, combined with an utter lack of empathy taught to them by our society from cradle to grave.

Simple question, Simple answer.

Solution every bit as simple - stop doing it.

-F

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