Government Colonoscopy

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VA Warns Advises thousands to be tested for Hepatitis and HIV


10 patients tested positive for hepatitis B or C at one facility, all due to unsanitary equipment used for colonoscopies, some going as far back as 2003 when the procedure was performed.

Just a couple months ago, the VA at the Murfreesboro facility was involved in another issue related to sterilization to where they shipped the equipment to another facility to clean in Nashville, and then shipped it back. BD
Sterilization at a VA Hospital – Should this be outsourced for another VA facility to sterilize tools and equipment used?

More than 10,000 Veterans Affairs (VA) patients who have received colonoscopies in the past six years may have been exposed to infectious diseases, including HIV and hepatitis B and C, according to the Associated Press.

Unsanitary equipment at three VA facilities (in Augusta, Ga., Miami, Fl. and Murfreesboro, Tenn.) has prompted officials to notify patients about the potential risk.

http://stanford.wellsphere.com/heal...nds-to-be-tested-for-hepatitis-and-hiv/634410

A preview of things to come if sloppy, disincentivised, socialist style medicine takes over. :crash:

 

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http://stanford.wellsphere.com/heal...nds-to-be-tested-for-hepatitis-and-hiv/634410

A preview of things to come if sloppy, disincentivised, socialist style medicine takes over. :crash:

No. That's an example of a government providing the least to whom from which it asks the most.

"...Well uh, you go to war with the Army you have and not the one You Might want.."

 

[Jagger69]

http://stanford.wellsphere.com/heal...nds-to-be-tested-for-hepatitis-and-hiv/634410

A preview of things to come if sloppy, disincentivised, socialist style medicine takes over. :crash:

And take a look at just a small sampling of the medical malpractice cases that have been filed and won under our wonderful current health care system:

http://www.klinespecter.com/med_mal02.html

And that list represents only 4 states!!!

As HM says, the VA would most certainly not be the template that we would want to use for universal health care. In fact, it's a national disgrace.

 

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And take a look at just a small sampling of the medical malpractice cases that have been filed and won with our wonderful current health care system:

http://www.klinespecter.com/med_mal02.html

And that list represents only 4 states!!!

As HM says, the VA would most certainly not be the template that we would want to use for universal health care. In fact, it's a national disgrace.

Remember the right wing says if health care reform passes more will die.Some obviously agree.