A letter sent by Dr. Lawrence Newman to 150 of his patients takes “complete responsibility” for putting them at risk for HIV and hepatitis because of his breach of infection control.
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The recent advertisement supporting Dr. Michael Kaplan — the Las Vegas Valley urologist whose medical license was suspended for reusing single-use needle guides — sheds a faint light on a little-known truth. Although a medical device is labeled single-use only, it might have been used before.
Residents and business owners who want a say in how Nevada will enact provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have a chance to speak up several times in the coming weeks.
Lee Horstein remembers the phone call from Dr. Michael Kaplan. “It was after my second prostate biopsy from him about four years ago,” the 69-year-old retired businessman said as he sat in an auditorium at the Nevada Cancer Institute. “I had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be good news when the doctor himself was on the phone.”
A technical bulletin has been issued to all health care providers, reminding them that the reuse of single-use only devices “places the health, safety and welfare of the public at risk for blood-borne pathogens such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.”
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Many breast cancer survivors would tell you that the day they were diagnosed was the hardest day of their lives. For Brandi Ellis, a Las Vegas mother of three diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in May 2020, the first thing she did was walk downstairs to tell her family — her “first line of defense,” as she calls them.