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Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients

posted by martyb on Thursday March 01 2018, @11:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the Oh-shit dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Colon and rectal surgeon Sanjiv Patankar allegedly washed and reused catheters that are inserted into patients' rectum during medical procedures. The instruments, which are used to examine patients with fecal incontinence, constipation, and other possible disorders, are supposed to be thrown away after a single use.

Patankar, who practiced in East Brunswick, [New Jersey] allegedly instructed medical assistants to wash the instruments in soapy water after use, soak them in bleach solutions, and then rinse before air-drying them. The doctor also reportedly ordered to continue using a catheter that has started to break down due to overbleaching.

In a hearing conducted Dec. 19, the state said that documented evidence appears to show that between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, Patankar's office performed 82 procedures but only five catheters were used over that period.

Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/217801/20171230/doctor-accused-of-reusing-one-use-anal-catheters-on-multiple-patients.htm

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 01 2018, @01:45PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 01 2018, @01:45PM (#645751) Journal

    See? This must have unmasked me as a non-right-wing person [soylentnews.org], right? 'Cause I didn't show any "ewww!" factor in my comment.

    Based on this, I wonder how the right-wings use their sex toys? Single use only?
    Who should I ask, I wonder who should I ask?

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Thursday March 01 2018, @03:59PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Thursday March 01 2018, @03:59PM (#645817)

    Not 'single use', but I'd expect, like underwear, that its mostly 'single user'.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:15PM (#645885)

    Nope, nope, nope.

    Connect the compatible parts. That's it. The digestive tract is not involved. Nothing non-human is involved, and there are exactly 2 humans involved.

    Humans get matched up in pairs, without any sort of swapping or trading or switching.

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:27AM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Saturday March 03 2018, @11:27AM (#647000) Homepage Journal

      You must be a TERRIFIC student. Because that's what they taught us in school. Maybe you learned from the same textbook, Health and How to Get It. And the way they taught us works tremendously, I made four beautiful children that way. But I've been married 3 times and I'm a GREAT negotiator. So I ordered a 3-headed dildo. The kind that has the heads pointing in 3 directions, not the kind with the 3 heads in a row (very important). And I'm going to invite Ivana and Marla over..........