Kinda scary, wouldn’t you agree?
Nearly 450 patients at Massachusetts hospital may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis Over a Two Year Period
Hey Mary…. You remember your visit to our hospital within the last two years? So yeah…. we may have kinda given you HIV or hepatitis. Our bad 🤷♂️
But we do have some wonderful medications for ya that will help you manage it for the rest of your life. Our sincerest apologies.
“I think it’s more common than we realize,” said Nasia Safdur, MD, PhD, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s typically in settings where there’s high turnover or there’s a time rush or something interrupts your normal scheme of best practices.”
These days, all areas of hospitals tend to be busy — but perhaps especially endoscopy units, some of which are still working through a backlog of patients who put off screening during the pandemic.
https://news.yahoo.com/dph-silent-hows-whys-salem-233130799.html
