Posted on 03/27/2011 8:33:20 PM PDT by george76
A former supervisor in the Dayton VA Medical Center’s dental clinic blamed intervention by the NAACP for foiling his efforts in the early 1990s to remove a dentist whose lax infection control practices put patients’ safety at risk.
Dr. Dwight M. Pemberton continued to practice dentistry at the Dayton VA, often failing to change latex gloves and sterilize dental instruments between patients...Between 1992 and July 2010, 535 patients who had invasive dental work by Pemberton may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens, the VA said. Nine have preliminary positive results for hepatitis B or hepatitis C.
In the early 1990s, “I came very, very close (to) limiting his (Pemberton’s) privileges, but at the eleventh hour ... the race card was played, and the direction I got from above was that we were going to reverse course and try something different,” the supervisor told VA investigators
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Pemberton, who had been earning $165,878 per year, retired Feb. 11 at age 81 while administrative action against him was pending. He had not seen patients since July, when two clinic workers alerted VA officials outside the clinic of his poor infection control practices.
(Excerpt) Read more at daytondailynews.com ...
Ah, the race card. Seems to be better than the Joker.
In the famous Bakke case — white guy sued when racial preference quotas kept him out of medical school. The African-American that got his slot in med school later lost his medical license after killing a patient.
Wasn’t to “Affirmative” an action for the dead guy.
Those patient should sue the pants off of the VA hospital and the “dentist” - that might get their attention.
What a sicko. Mistakes are one thing, but if it's done consistently and deliberately, it should be assault, or attempted murder.
And the NAACP
I talked with a physical therapist who once worked for a VA hospital. He said at the time, employees received evaluations. However, bad evaluations were routinely upgraded when an employee complained. Once, when a female employee got a bad evaluation, a Union Rep flew in from Washington D.C. and got in the face of the hospital administrator. Eventually, the hospital simply stopped evaluating the employees.
The subsequent actions of the black student in the Bakke case were a perfect demonstration of the absurdity of it; that is happening in workplaces all over the country, in all fields. The soft bigotry of lowered expectations...
Starting a few years ago, our evaluations of our staff have to be reviewed by senior staff before the employees ever see them. On the other hand, we’ve been told not to be overly kind in the evaluations, either; it makes it difficult to make the case that someone is unable to do their job if they’ve got 10 years of glowing evaluations. I’ve actually been told to include an employee’s poor attendance in an evaluation that I didn’t think was critical; they were paid very little, so you couldn’t expect super habits for that money.
The AA push always involves bringing people of lesser quality to be placed into positions they never earned.
It’s kind of like Obama, the Soros-led collective white guilt and abject and utter media malfeasance gave us a guy who probably should be a city councilman or grivance attorney in DC (ACLU-type), not the President of the United States.
I had a patient who was an epidemiologist who was brought to LA to study AIDS at USC and he told me that he would rather be a proctologist than a dental hygienist.
First of all the prophy angles that were used were notautoclavable, we just wiped them with alcohol and after AIDs was discovered, we started putting them in cold sterilization. I put mine in autoclave packets but they didn't last long.
I used to refuse to work if the dentist didn't have enough gloves, most hygienists only wore the gloves to protect themselves and washed their hands with the gloves on, not always a safe practice. I double gloved, as advised by my epidemiologist patient.
I know exactly how those early cases of AIDs were passed through dental offices. Dentists and dental hygienists often cleaned their own teeth before starting the day, simply wiping down with alcohol. They say that the AIDs virus is very weak and cannot survive long in the air. I'm not sure about that. My epidemiologist patient didn't seem to be either.
And this is even before Obamacare gets going - bureaucrats deciding what patients can be seen, and what doctors will be doing the seeing.....
Its my understanding you cannot sue the VA.
Trouble at VA went beyond 1 dentist
A VA investigation shows the dental office was poorly managed and understaffed.
In sworn testimony given during a Veterans Affairs investigation, workers describe a poorly run, understaffed clinic, where supervisors tolerated inappropriate activities and cut corners, and workers were paralyzed by fear.
According to a post-investigation report, another of the clinic’s eight dentists allegedly broke teeth during extractions and performed unnecessary procedures. Working with that dentist, whose name hasn’t been obtained by the Dayton Daily News, “was just like watching a child be abused,” one worker told investigators.
Clinic dentists even took credit for being primary providers of dental work done by unlicensed students, who were permitted to practice without the required level of supervision, according to the report.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/trouble-at-va-went-beyond-1-dentist-1119003.html
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki acknowledged a “failure of leadership” in Dayton during a federal budget hearing earlier this month, during which he was asked why VA Medical Center Director Guy Richardson had received an $11,874 bonus at the end of federal fiscal 2010.
“I’m not going to try to describe why a bonus was sensible,” Shinseki said. “This went on for an extended period of time when it wasn’t brought to the attention of leadership, and I again fault that to a failure in leadership.”
Soon after, Richardson was reassigned to a VA regional headquarters job in Cincinnati, described by VA officials as a “lateral move” without a change in pay. Richardson received $167,328 in fiscal 2010.
This is what government health care looks like, folks. Get used to it.
Ah, the race card. Seems to be better than the Joker.
But we have both now.
The Race Pimps and Obama
Yup.
There was once a case at the local VA hospital, where a medical technician, who was African American, and was a “thug”, was eventually fired for inappropriate behaviors (he was prone and engaged in frequent violent outbursts), but it took over two years. Why? The EEO was able to keep him employed for over two years at that place. People were AFRAID of this guy, he was little punk. This was in the early 90’s as well, as I recall.
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