Posted on 05/07/2010 4:04:49 PM PDT by redreno
A jury on Friday awarded a Henderson couple $500 million in punitive damages in the first civil trial related to Southern Nevada's hepatitis outbreak.
Lawyers for Henry and Lorraine Chanin had suggested damages of more than $1 billion against Teva Parenteral Medicine and Baxter Healthcare Services.
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Insane. After asking fir a billion they shouldn’t get a penny.
What turd world country did the administering doctor come from. This happened with some Russian nurses too.
Tort reform.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
Huh? Can someone explain how this would work? I mean, sterile needles, sterile storage, sterile environment... There must be a key factoid missing from the story.
People just aren’t learning.
Stupid jurors.
Trial lawyers rarely want any juror that has an IQ over 37.
Jeez. why don't the jurors just say: "One JILLION dollars".
THIS is the reason our health care system is EFFED UP. If anyone thinks Obamacare is going to fix this, they’re crazy.
Double dipping contaminated the vials.
Double dipping what, needles? That would be a major no-no regardless and wouldn't have anything to do with the vials. Am I missing something?
Nope, and re-using needles is one of the biggest no no’s of all. How would you like to end up with Hepatitis because of a clinic deliberately using old needles?
Dirty needle being used to draw up a dose from the vial is what I read elsewhere. Yes, a HUGE no-no!
So it would seem the article has it entirely wrong then. It wasn’t “reusing” vials that was the problem, it was something worse, reusing needles. Makes a lot more sense.
They were reusing vials of anesthetic on patients having colonoscopies, I am trying to remember back the entire story, it was quite a scandal in Vegas at the time, it broke around the time my husband was over in Vegas for back surgery and all the news was full of this story because so many people had gone through that clinic for colonoscopies and now they had patients with Hepatitis as a result of cross contamination... sort of sends a chill up your spine when you realize you have no idea what they are doing in some of these clinics when you go in for a so-called simple procedure.. my husband got a bacterial infection from his colonoscopy right around that same time period....
Truly a bummer. It occurs to me I may be misunderstanding this "vial" business. The article must be referring to "ready to use" syringes, and not vials that just contain the meds. Is that your understanding?
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