(Las Vegas)City shuts clinic, with harsh words for owners

Las Vegas SUN ^ | 1 MARCH 2008 | Marshall Allen

[ErnBatavia]

I didn't even know that one could have an endoscopy (I've had 10 or 11) or colonoscopy (3) in a clinic outside of a hospital environment.

My docs always explained that it was hospital outpatient "just in case of a tear or perforation" - which would require pretty immediate surgery.

[glorgau]

Any nurse who followed those orders to reuse biohazard material instead of proper disposal is also subject to license revocation.

Anybody in the entire chain of decision should be subject to civil and criminal penalties. What in the hell were they thinking when this was done even once?

[NautiNurse]

An endoscopy center is typically set up much like an ambulatory surgery center. Likewise, the center should have emergency plans for immediate hospital transport in the unlikely event a procedure becomes complicated. At this point, I couldn’t wouldn’t venture a guess about what contingency policies and procedures the Las Vegas quack shop had in place.

[MarkL]

Sort of reminds me of the KC pharmacist who diluted cancer "cocktails" and became a multi-millionaire doing it. He's spending a rather substantial amount of time (but nowhere near enough!) time in prison. He claimed that he wasn't responsible for any of the deaths, since they were already dying of cancer... And due to the fact that anyone who died DID die of cancer... No way to hang a "real" murder charge on the guy...

One thing's for sure... When this came out, I checked to be sure that my mother hadn't gotten any or her medications from this piece of s**t before she died of cancer. Had she done so, I'd be waiting for him the day he steps out of prison, and happily gone to prison myself.

I certainly hope that there's a special place in hell reserved for health care workers who do this sort of thing.

Mark

[MarkL]

I didn't even know that one could have an endoscopy (I've had 10 or 11) or colonoscopy (3) in a clinic outside of a hospital environment.

I've had colonoscopies at my gastroenterologist's office, however it's in a medical complex with a hospital attached, so in a worst case scenario, I suppose that a patient could be in the ER within a few minutes.

Mark

[Bernard]

If he re-used syringes in order to save money, where did he get the labor force to execute his orders to use dangerous equipment? I bet they weren’t all first-round draft choices.

[TASMANIANRED]

3rd world values...

[secretagent]

Desai used to sit on the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners

Thank goodness we have medical licensing by the government. Who knows what horrors free enterprise would yield?

[traviskicks]

good point, blech. :)

[montag813]

Desai ordered his nurses to reuse syringes and reuse single-dose vials of medication when administering anesthesia to patients who received endoscopic procedures. The practice, which allowed cross contamination of patients’ blood, caused six people to become infected with hepatitis C. Desai did it to save money, DiFiore said.

He should face the death penalty for this.

[Chickensoup]

I have been saying for years that we have been headed for third world medicine. Socialized medicine is just another name for third world medicine.

Never leave your loved one alone in a healthcare setting. it is third world and you will never know what happens to them. Never go to a freestanding privatly owned surgical or proceedural entinty. Everyone there is out to save their job and the pressure is too great. Go to a well respected medical center if you are very sick and to a small well thougt of hospital if you are looking for diagonstics.

[traviskicks]

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