these guys will prolly be put on the government terrorist watch list now as disgruntled Veterans...It is difficult to understand how this could have happened on a nationwide basis. You can I suppose understand how one facility with an incompetent idiot running it would get it wrong, but having it happen over multiple facilities is incomprehesible.
How would you like to hear the Dr. say “good enough for government work” as you wake from anesthesia.
This is shameful and criminal!
Personally, even though I don’t know all the details about the incident, I think this incident has been fully blown out of proportion by the liberal news media that would love to see the end of the VA hospitals networks. My gut feeling is if we get some sort of national health care system in the U.S. they will attempt to enroll the veterans that depend on the VA into the new national health care system where they would probably get less care, and probably quality care.
No, the article says endoscopies. "they were treated with endoscopic equipment that wasn't properly sterilized"
Looks like the VA is trying to weasel out of it: "The agency says there's no way to prove patients contracted the illnesses at its facilities."
The Government can never be wrong.
Time to slander the victims.
Huh? Isn't this just so much baloney? Viruses have RNA and it's as unique to each individual virus as DNA is to more advanced organisms. So if Joe tests positive for HIV and it's genetically identical to another VA patient's HIV, and both had an endoscopic procedure done at about the same time, but otherwise have noting in common, it seems like it would be pretty much a slam dunk: Joe got it from the dirty endoscope at the VA.
This is the future of socialized medicine, only on a bigger scale.
these guys will prolly be put on the government terrorist watch list now as disgruntled Veterans...