Posted by
Roxanna M. on Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:35:37 AM
"Thousands of military veterans across the South are waiting to find out if they were exposed to infectious diseases by government clinics that performed colonoscopies and other procedures with equipment that wasn't properly sterilized." ( http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=45744&print=on )
Apparently, the "tubing attached to the scope was processed at the end of each day instead of between each patient."
Are you kidding me!?! Doctors, who supposedly take an oath to do no harm, were running something up the rear ends of patient after patient without sterilizing it between procedures! Let that sink in for a minute. Is your stomach churning yet. Are you asking yourself: "How on earth could a doctor be so completely and utterly irresponsible" yet. What's next? Here's an idea. Why don't we do what they do in Cuba. Let's keep using the same needle until it becomes dull.
The VA is warning veterans who had colonoscopies as far back as 5 years at three of its facilities that they may have been exposed to the bodily fluids of others and should be tested to see what, if anything, they may have contracted.
How many people are involved? Letters have gone out to 11,460 veterans. Notices sent to colonoscopy patients at the facility in Murfreesboro clinic in Tennessee "were timed to the date of a procedure on a patient with AIDS". Are you kidding me!?!
A lawyer in Nashville is preparing claims for several veterans who have tested positive for hepatitis B. One elderly vet who had cancer when he had a colonoscopy died shortly thereafter. His death is being investigated.
One veteran who received such a notice said he "thinks the VA was saving money by not cleaning the tubing between its use on each patient".
This is the future that BO and his playmates in congress envision for all of us. Not for them, of course. They're special. They're the anointed. Don't ever forget that government is very good at exempting itself from what it inflicts on the rest of us.
As usual, they're wrong. Eventually, the havoc they wreak with the health care system will spread out to everyone, including themselves. Not soon enough, unfortunately.