Physician may have infected patients

All 1800 patients since 2004 have been offered free blood tests..this is your biggest potential nightmare...all over re-using syringes it appears...especially for eye surgery...BD 

Bloomington - The search is on for hundreds of patients who may have been infected at an Indiana clinic. Two patients have already tested positive for Hepatitis C. Doctors at the labs of Internal Medicine Associates use common standards to keep patients safe. "We use universal precautions and everything's single use, so one needle, one patient," said William Beyer, CEO of Internal Medicine Associates. But the State Department of Health found that wasn't happening at the Bloomington Surgery Center. The department says an anesthesiologist at the clinic used the same syringe on multiple patients undergoing eye surgery.

While the anesthesiologist was re-using syringes, ten patients had Hepatitis C, one had Hepatitis B, and one HIV. After the surgeries, two people developed Hepatitis C.

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