Veterans are taking on Miami’s VA hospital over colonoscopies that put them at risk for HIV, hepatitis,and other disease (lawyer, healthcare)
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There could be many more suits to come. Rivera was among 11,000 veterans who had colonoscopies performed in Miami, Tennessee and Georgia between 2004 and 2009 with equipment that the VA has acknowledged may have been improperly cleaned. The VA says 2,539 Miami vets are “potentially at risk for infection” from the colonoscopies but insists that “there is currently no evidence to suggest these infections were acquired from the endoscopic equipment.”
Read more: VA colonoscopies put Miami vets at risk - Healthcare - MiamiHerald.com (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/26/2087611/miami-vets-sue-the-va-over-flawed.html##ixzz1FMU9U4vx - broken link)
[LEFT]There could be many more suits to come. Rivera was among 11,000 veterans who had colonoscopies performed in Miami, Tennessee and Georgia between 2004 and 2009 with equipment that the VA has acknowledged may have been improperly cleaned. The VA says 2,539 Miami vets are “potentially at risk for infection” from the colonoscopies but insists that “there is currently no evidence to suggest these infections were acquired from the endoscopic equipment.”
Read more: VA colonoscopies put Miami vets at risk - Healthcare - MiamiHerald.com (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/26/2087611/miami-vets-sue-the-va-over-flawed.html##ixzz1FMU9U4vx - broken link)[/LEFT]
Not surprising. The same people who botched my surgery so badly that it cost me a kidney.
Not surprising. The same people who botched my surgery so badly that it cost me a kidney.
I hope he gets his money. The sad part is how many may have gotten it, and the VA just denies, denies.
"He came up HIV positive.
He’s shocked and mortified. He feels the government has given him a death sentence,” said lawyer Ira Leesfield, who has filed suit against the VA for $20 million on Rivera’s behalf. “He has a wife and four children. He led a risk-free life, and he tested positive. There’s only one possible source: the colonoscopy.”
This would not be covered under tort reform necessarily unless a accidnet of outvcome. Lberals love to drive up price by so mnay useless lawsuits i hope for a insurnace compnay payout.Onereaso this goy will be waiting i lie for years to get to court.
This is disgusting.
I'm wondering if they had budget cuts and lost staff or if some of their equipment has been bad and they were unable to replace it.
It's feasible.
It's no excuse but if this is a recent change in the hospital's behavior (clean instruments), what happened?
This is disgusting.
I'm wondering if they had budget cuts and lost staff or if some of their equipment has been bad and they were unable to replace it.
It's feasible.
It's no excuse but if this is a recent change in the hospital's behavior (clean instruments), what happened?
The issue is all about training, not the equipment. This happened because the staff either wasn't properly trained or they weren't following the training they were given by the equipment manufacturer, the same exact thing that took place at a few other VA hospitals around the US in recent years. This has nothing to do with budget cuts or bad equipment, read the article.
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