Posted on 02/28/2008 6:59:40 AM PST by sweetiepiezer
Forty thousand Nevadans soon will receive word that they might have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis strains B and C in what a federal health official called the largest notification of its kind in U.S. history.
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Want to ping you also on post 80
Thanks very much for that.
You saw the ricin find in NV?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333781,00.html
YEs, saw that ricin story, unreal.
Dr Desai received his medical degree from Guarat University of India. He did his residency at a Catholic Medical Center.
He lives in Red Rock Country Club Estates of Las Vegas. His home is 8724 sq ft worth $3.4 million. The good(sarc) dr has been a generous political donor to both political parties.
I have learned to avoid any foreign medical personnel. There is a special visa program allowing them to immigrate to the US. Unfortunately they are scattered throughout the system. I don’t know they are involved until the bills come in. “Dr” Desai is typical of those who got his training in a third world country well known unsanitary conditions. They get here and do residency in some obscure medical center. Desai is different only in his degree of success.
He has three clinics in the Las Vegas metro area and owns parts of several others.
I am one of the 40,000+ who is now under the gun. I’m going for testing this morning. After that I’m watching for some junkyard lawyer to take do a class action bit.
The scary part of this whole thing is how common this mispractice is throughout our health care system, locally and nationally.
if I was one the patients I would be very PO’d right now
I AM
I am so sorry. Best of luck to you.
Is it true this joint is still open? I’d get about 40,000 or so of your fellow victims together and shut the doors for good.
yep I’d be on the phone looking for a lawyer.
I repeat, I AM
His $3.4 million home in Red Rock Country Club Estates is a better target than his three clinics.
What makes you think these people are professionals?
I am really sorry to hear that. I hope that everything is okay with you and that you have secured a very good lawyer. Red Rock Country Club would be a nice new home for any Freeper :0
Endoscopy involves inserting medieval torture instruments with a camera and lighting into your rear and taking pictures. That’s as polite as I can tell you. You really do not want to know the details in a public forum.
Bringing third world experience to American families!
Dr Desai got his degree at the Guarat University of India in the 1980s. Now there is really a third world cesspool.
These third world doctors are brought into our country under a special visa program.
There’s more than 40,000. Consider familes, friends and lovers. Bring on the lawyers!
Probably because they hired some Muslim hospital workers who refuse to even roll up their sleeves to wash.
There is something going on now in the United Kingdom about Muslim health care workers refusing to wash their hands.
Time to get rid Mr. Labus and replace him with an investigator not blinded by political correctness.
Dr Desai is a generous political donor to both parties.
Are you prepared to help pay all those attorney fees?
I don’t have to. Junk yard lawyers will be all over this for a contingency fee and publicity. You can also bet the problem is more widespread than just this case
I guess that's why they call it "End"oscopy. ,-)
I have a similar story, where all along I was thinking, “why haven’t they tested for X, since it’s the obvious choice...” but the doctors didn’t until my aunt’s health situation was out of control.
These were all foreign trained doctors. Although I’m sure some are brilliant, MANY seem to be able to do the paperwork to pass the medical boards, but they have no common sense or ability to see the big picture. It’s all about the MONEY>
From the article:
[six patients] are believed to have been exposed to [hepatitis C] when anesthesiologists reused syringes to administer medications.
Reuse of syringes and vials at the facility was a "common practice".
... it was determined that syringes -- not needles -- and the use of vials of anesthesia medication on multiple patients were potential sources of infection.
A syringe would become contaminated by the backflow of blood when patients with a blood-borne disease were injected with medication... That syringe, in turn, would be reused to withdraw medication from a different vial. That vial could become contaminated and result in infection.
... the reuse of syringes and vials of medication were considered more of a public health risk than the fact that endoscopic equipment was not cleaned properly by clinic personnel.
Instead of cleaning one endoscope and then using fresh solution to clean another one, the same dirty solution would be used ... one batch of cleaning solution should be used for a single endoscope or set of instruments.
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