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1 posted on 03/27/2011 8:33:22 PM PDT by george76
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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.


2 posted on 03/27/2011 8:36:46 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Those patient should sue the pants off of the VA hospital and the “dentist” - that might get their attention.


3 posted on 03/27/2011 8:36:56 PM PDT by aquila48
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often failing to change latex gloves and sterilize dental instruments between patients.

What a sicko. Mistakes are one thing, but if it's done consistently and deliberately, it should be assault, or attempted murder.

4 posted on 03/27/2011 8:38:08 PM PDT by FlyVet
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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.


6 posted on 03/27/2011 8:46:40 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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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.


9 posted on 03/27/2011 9:02:03 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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I used to be a dental hygienist and I can tell you that the sterilization processes that were used in the eighties were totally in adequate to protect either the dental hygienists or the patients.

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.

10 posted on 03/27/2011 9:02:15 PM PDT by Eva
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And this is even before Obamacare gets going - bureaucrats deciding what patients can be seen, and what doctors will be doing the seeing.....


11 posted on 03/27/2011 9:09:08 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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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


13 posted on 03/27/2011 9:26:26 PM PDT by kcvl
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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.


14 posted on 03/27/2011 9:28:06 PM PDT by kcvl
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The VA is a government hospital. They are protected from torts. The employees have no obligation to buy liability insurance. Hence, they have no motivation not to make mistakes. Who would go to them? Those to stingy to buy health insurance. You will get your leg cut off when it should have been your foot.
16 posted on 03/28/2011 12:14:21 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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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.


19 posted on 03/14/2012 2:08:27 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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