[Flavius]

Official: Staff told to reuse vials, syringes to save money

Turns out, it was greed.

cool just like a 3rd world operation

[SE Mom]

They closed the clinic (duh)...

[OCCASparky]

Anyone here who thinks this won’t happen under Hillary/Obama/socialized medicine, raise your hand.

[Orange1998]

Desai ordered his nurses to reuse syringes and reuse single-dose vials of medication

Total disregard for his patients.

[denydenydeny]

Don’t you understand? HE WAS SAVING THE PLANET! /s

[radar101]

Dr. Dipak Desai is an American success story, an immigrant from India who built a small medical empire in the desert of Southern Nevada.

Now an aspect of that success is under scrutiny after health officials have determined that six patients treated at Desai's Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada were infected there with hepatitis C, a potentially lethal blood-borne virus. Investigators believe they became infected when workers used contaminated syringes and vials when injecting patients with medication.

Desai, a doctor in Nevada since 1980, is 65 percent owner of the center, according to Las Vegas city business license records. Three other doctors share ownership, with Dr. Eladio Carrera having the next largest stake with 14 percent, according to the records.

Desai has not commented publicly.

[Cold Heart]

BTTT

[CIB-173RDABN]

Desai did it to save money.

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I am willing to bet he did not save anywhere near the amount of money it is going to take to clean up this mess.

This is so wrong on so many levels.

Why would anyone risk their financial future to "save a little money?

Why would any of the professional staff, some of whom must be liscensed by the state risk their liscense to do something they know is wrong?

It has been many years since I have worked in the medical field, but I would have quit my job before doing something this wrong (and most likely gone public as well).

Shame on all those that knew what was going on and kept quiet, and double shame on those that went along with it.

[MarkL]

Sort of reminds me of the KC pharmacist who diluted cancer "cocktails" and became a multi-millionaire doing it. He's spending a rather substantial amount of time (but nowhere near enough!) time in prison. He claimed that he wasn't responsible for any of the deaths, since they were already dying of cancer... And due to the fact that anyone who died DID die of cancer... No way to hang a "real" murder charge on the guy...

One thing's for sure... When this came out, I checked to be sure that my mother hadn't gotten any or her medications from this piece of s**t before she died of cancer. Had she done so, I'd be waiting for him the day he steps out of prison, and happily gone to prison myself.

I certainly hope that there's a special place in hell reserved for health care workers who do this sort of thing.

Mark

[Bernard]

If he re-used syringes in order to save money, where did he get the labor force to execute his orders to use dangerous equipment? I bet they weren’t all first-round draft choices.

[TASMANIANRED]

3rd world values...

[secretagent]

Desai used to sit on the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners

Thank goodness we have medical licensing by the government. Who knows what horrors free enterprise would yield?

[montag813]

Desai ordered his nurses to reuse syringes and reuse single-dose vials of medication when administering anesthesia to patients who received endoscopic procedures. The practice, which allowed cross contamination of patients’ blood, caused six people to become infected with hepatitis C. Desai did it to save money, DiFiore said.

He should face the death penalty for this.

[Chickensoup]

I have been saying for years that we have been headed for third world medicine. Socialized medicine is just another name for third world medicine.

Never leave your loved one alone in a healthcare setting. it is third world and you will never know what happens to them. Never go to a freestanding privatly owned surgical or proceedural entinty. Everyone there is out to save their job and the pressure is too great. Go to a well respected medical center if you are very sick and to a small well thougt of hospital if you are looking for diagonstics.