GainesvilleMoms.com

This just makes my blood boil! My hubby and I were watching a piece on this and I understand that the doc was a bad guy here, but I kept saying "What about the nurses? Why didn't they say anything?!" I just cannot imagine how so many people kept their mouths shut! What ever happened to ethics? This just makes me sick.

And I am sorry, but if I were "ordered" to save money this way and it had to do with another human being's life, then I'm out the door!

"Investigators have found that when a patient undergoing a colonoscopy needed more sedative, the nurses, ordered to save money would dip the same syringe back into a vial.

At least one time that was done on a patient who had hepatitis C and the vial became contaminated. Even though they were intended for single use, they would be reused on other patients spreading hepatitis C to at least six others.

The entire cost savings by reusing syringes? About $5 to $10 per patient."

http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/las-vegas-doct....aspx?googleid=29982

Perhaps they should reuse these syringes on the doctor and his staff...maybe then it will give them a little bit of understanding on what they've done to these people's lives!

And then we can explain to them that we are simply trying to save about $5 a person, which is LESS than lunch at Burger King!