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Miami vets get procedures with unsterile equipment (thousands of colonoscopies)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/964045.html ^
Posted on 03/24/2009 1:08:54 PM PDT by chessplayer
MIAMI -- A Veterans Affairs hospital here has notified thousands of patients that their colonoscopies were performed with improperly sterilized equipment, officials said Monday.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthcare; military; va; veterans
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To: chessplayer
If having a tube stuck up my rectum is the price I pay for those great drugs they gave me, I’m in.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:00:54 PM PDT
by
yazoo
To: chessplayer
Federal Emergency Medicine Ageny
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:24:26 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: chessplayer
Ahem. It may not be all bad????
Don't Poo-Poo Technique: Fecal Transplant Can Cure Superbug, Doctors Say
More than 90 per cent of C. difficile patients are cured by fecal transplants, studies suggest
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | 12:17 PM ET CBC News
A controversial new treatment, which involves the transplantation of human waste, can treat cases of C. difficile infection. But only a handful of physicians in Canada undertake the messy procedure.
Clostridium difficile is a superbug that commonly spreads in hospital settings and has been linked to the deaths of at least 2,000 people in Quebec since 2003, as well as in other provinces.
Though C. difficile can be kept in check by good bacteria in the bowel, problems can arise when the superbug is treated by antibiotics such as vancomycin. The antibiotics sometimes wipe out the good bacteria but fail to completely kill the C. difficile leaving enough of it that it later flourishes.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:41:43 PM PDT
by
blam
To: chessplayer
Another argument against government-run socialized healthcare.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:42:56 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
To: chessplayer
You can't sue the government for inadequate care like you can a private hospital so there's no reason for them to treat you with respect.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:45:26 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Man, this is a big issue! We better put the government in charge of all health care.... Exactly. We can all get free colonoscopies then.
Lib friend of mine is a physician at a VA hospital. She was amazed to discover that vets are terrific fabulous wonderful people.
I heard from another rabid lib friend who went to Iraq as a translator that US servicemen and women are the best people she'd ever met. She came home 100% behind Bush.
Apparently libs can be converted if they're tossed into the US military zone and actually relate to real Americans.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:49:14 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: a fool in paradise
This is appalling mis-treatment of our vets.
Clearly the solution is to put Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and the rest of the ‘Rats in charge of all health care in the country.... then the world.
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posted on
03/24/2009 2:58:12 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Of course I want Obama to "fail" in his effort to transform America into a socialist miasma)
To: Blood of Tyrants
A HUGE number of really bad doctors and nurses end up at the VA. Let me help you........
A huge number of bad doc's, nurses, and ancillary bedside practitioners are EVERYWHERE!
I could tell you stories...and I've never worked in a VA Hospital...although I have taught in one.
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posted on
03/24/2009 3:01:32 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
To: chessplayer
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posted on
03/24/2009 3:10:56 PM PDT
by
happygrl
(BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
To: Blood of Tyrants
One of the reasons why, even though I have a service connected disability, I will not use the VA for medical treatment.
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posted on
03/24/2009 3:11:53 PM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: lula
"...it is a sad state of affairs for the medical facility to do an invasive procedure without sterilization..."This story was on WIOD-AM radio in Miami. They interviewed an affected Marine who said the sterilization problem had surfaced at a VA hospital in Tennessee also.
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:39:28 PM PDT
by
Does so
(White House uncomfortable? Sleeplessness? The 0bama will quit before 6 months are up.)
To: Does so
Perhaps they ARE trying to save on health care costs by getting rid of our Vets.
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:49:04 PM PDT
by
lula
( If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?)
To: chessplayer
Actually that kind of scope is often not sterilized.It is deconed then undergoes high level sanitizing,one level below sterilization.Those scopes are delicate instruments and if they underwent certain forms of sterilization they could be damaged and as long as they come into contact with intact mucus membranes they are, technically, not required to be sterilized.Any Sterile Processing Techs out there?Tell me,do they still use Gluteraldehyde, or have they switched to something else?Even if they didn`t sanitize them,wouldn`t the standard use of washer/sanitizers reduce the risk?Are they used on colonoscopes?
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posted on
03/24/2009 6:55:53 PM PDT
by
nomad
To: chessplayer
Great way to spread AIDS eh? Ah, the quality of Veteran care in a thankless liberal world.
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posted on
03/25/2009 1:38:33 AM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: chessplayer
He PROBABLY has acute Hepatitus/AIDS now...as well as rectal leprosy.
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posted on
03/25/2009 6:04:23 AM PDT
by
2harddrive
(...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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