Comments on: Local Man Deals With Hepatitis Scare

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:38:56 +0000

I am very sorry to be following this story. These doctors should be arrested and all offices shut down and assets frozen. This is unacceptable.

Mary

By: deb

deb — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:42:54 +0000

It is fairly rare for Hep C to be contracted sexually, unless there is blood and open wounds on both sides. There is a 10 year study that followed married couples where one had hep c and one did not and there were almost NO transmissions. So although it is possible, that is rare.

I was infected during surgery in late 06. Medical transmission seems much more likely than sexual transmission.

it is a normal reaction to worry a lot about sexual transmission but it is very rare. Rarer, than, obviously, a medically acquired case.

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:33:38 +0000

I am awaiting my test results. My main concern is that if I have contracted a disease, I may have passed it on to my wife. If I test negative, this time, I may not be so lucky in the next test or the next. My life has been forever changed.
The lawyers are circling, but the potential monetary damages are in the billions. It is doubtful that there is enough insurance or other means to compensate everyone. Money is the least of it. The human suffering is incalcuable.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:30:30 +0000

I worked in the Medical field for over 12 years. That was 10 years ago, but as an employee, we had to get precautionary training every year.

Just as we were taught to take every precaution to avoid getting stuck with a needle, we knew better than to reuse a needle on patients and we were just phlebotamists, which is a position that is very low on the medical totem pole!

Doctors and Nurses are highly paid and many of them teach those under them how to be safe.

If ANYONE should know better than to reuse a needle, its them!

The fact that these doctors and nurses did not take an interest in patient safety says alot about them. I sure wouldn’t want ANY of those doctors and nurses performing a procedure on me since they obviously have such a low regard for human life! How would they feel if someone did this to them or their loved ones?

Doctors complain about the high cost of insurance to protect them from being sued but when they do something this stupid and careless, (which, I might add was totally PREVENTABLE), what is a person supposed to do? Pat them on the back because they were trying to save a few pennies at their patient’s expense?

Who and where does a person go see when they are ill and still feel safe?

Now I have to find a new Gastroenterologist, and how do I know that person won’t do the same thing or worse?

I thought these doctors were top of the line doctors or I never would have gone to see them. Now I find out they only cared about the almighty dollar, and their nurses who allowed this to go on aren’t any better!

I would NEVER allow this to happen to a patient on MY watch. I would report something like this and go work at another clinic but I would definitely not risk a person’s life doing something I knew was not right.

Do they realize how many lives they may have ruined? They say what goes around comes around. We shall see!