So I was in the doctors the other day getting my post accident check up. While waiting in the white sterile room they make you wait in until the "busy" doctor who you saw flirting with a receptionist is ready to see you, I noticed this box pictured here. The box used to dispose of the gross, used, and perhaps infected needles previously used to inject some magical cure into a sickly unsuspecting victim. I was forced to think about the horrible memory of my last shot and the invasion of the metal prick into my body and the burn of the fluid running through my veins! Ahhhh! Everyone hates getting shots. I'm not sure a sane person is allowed mentally to enjoy such pain. Anyway.... I also remembered the news story I heard the other day. A clinic in Las Vegas was reusing syringes and viles on their patients. This broke out into 6 cases of hepatitis C and possibly could have affected the near 40,000 people they were forced to send letters to. This is amazing! Could you imagine getting a letter in the mail saying that you are in risk of having been infected with hepatitis or HIV due to unsafe clinical practices? Can I say CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT!! It is appalling to me that a clinic would even think to do such a think and endanger so many people with their lives! This isn't like asbestos problems in our past where we weren't really sure if it caused cancer. This is in direct defiance of the danger it could impose on the people they were supposed to be saving from disease, not giving diseases. Chew on that though for a while!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_re_us/hepatitis_exposure
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