Endoscopy Scandal & Public Health Crisis

PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS: More infections surface

Officials say cases might be linked to clinic
http://www.lvrj.com/news/18796269.html
By ANNETTE WELLS and PAUL HARASIM
Health authorities said Thursday that 77 more patients might have contracted hepatitis C at a local medical clinic where unsafe injection practices have been identified.

The 77 patients of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, who recently tested positive for the liver disease, did not report any other risk factors for the disease other than having undergone a procedure at the clinic, said Brian Labus, senior epidemiologist for the Southern Nevada Health District.

"We can't say for certain that they got it at the clinic; however, the clinic is the obvious source of infection considering they had no other risk factors," Labus said.

The new cases are not acute, and patients would not have apparent symptoms.

"Medical Mafia", have you ever heard of Medical Mafia?

Here it is......., if you ever wonder.... if there is a Mafia in the medical system?. Well stop wondering, Medical Practice is one of the last place you want to talk or think about a mafia existing but you were wrong.

Medical Mafia........ if uncovered, it will shatter the very consience of humankind and the very meaning of life, ethics, justice and well-being, because we do not want to see mafia in medicine, law, school and at home.

It is sad, we have to accept the fact that there is a medical Mafia. This las vegas medical mafia could extend beyong one could think to the Judges who are sitting in the court room to give verdict instead they can work under the control of Mafia? Wow...wow wow....wow.

Ok, here is the story! Oh no, the Truth!:

Medical Mafia made easy

Allegedly corrupt doctors! Potentially unethical lawyers! Millions of very real dollars! Our step-by-step guide to the city's other outrageous medical scandal.

by ANDREW KIRALY and GEORGE KNAPP

So, there's this medical consultant who pays doctors for referring personal-injury cases to him, which the medical consultant then passes along to a group of lawyers, who in turn pay the medical consultant for the referrals, but who also get the doctors -- protected from medical malpractice lawsuits themselves -- to lie in the courtroom in order to inflate personal-injury settlements, money the lawyers share with the medical consultant to keep the lucrative referrals coming, see, and ...

Confused yet?

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