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63. Not so sure about that

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/mar/09/assembly-line-colonoscopies-clinic-described/

Then, 10 days ago, the Southern Nevada Health District announced that 40,000 people might have been infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV because of dangerous injection practices at the downtown endoscopy center.

Dr. Dipak Desai, majority owner of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, leaves Las Vegas City Hall on March 3. Desai has surrendered his medical license pending the outcome of a state investigation.

Never, it seems, has the community been so collectively outraged as now, with the news that patients were put at risk of being infected with fatal diseases because of a doctor’s drumbeat to save money.

According to investigators, the nurses claimed that Dr. Dipak Desai, one of the state’s most powerful physicians and owner of the clinic, had ordered the dangerous practices. When patients needed more anesthetic, the nurses were using the same syringe to dip back into the vial. That tainted the medicine. Then, even though the vials were intended for single use, the nurses would reuse them on other patients. That passed along infection. Little money would be saved by reusing syringes, but reusing the medicine could save $5 to $10 per procedure, experts estimated.