New York injury lawyers may have full schedules from one doctor's medical malpractice.
A New York plastic surgeon had her license suspended and her office in Connecticut closed because of horrendous conditions. Among many of the office's indiscretions, there were reused suture sets that had blood and other fluids on them, rust on a sterilizer machine, and animal excrement on some of the equipment.
NBC New York has reported the unhealthy conditions. As with all medical establishments, certain health codes must be followed. At this place, it wasn't just that the conditions were dirty, but that they were breaking the law.
When someone is undergoing a medical procedure, a licensed nurse should be present in case something happens that would require her help. The Department of Public Health reported that there were procedures that occurred without a nurse.
Also, just like there is a sheet of paper waiting for you at the doctor's office so you won't sit where all the other sick people were sitting, medical offices are supposed to provide as sterile of an environment as possible. That is why the dust and blood that was found on the floor and the animal excrement that was found on the tools was frowned upon. If you are going to have a medical procedure, would you want it done in a place that is littered with possible infections, and animal feces? I didn't think so.
Finally, hospitals never reuse the same syringes because of diseases or illnesses that are carried in people's blood. Here however, they must have been going with a more "green" alternative (and by green, I'm not referring to the planet but what color the people will be after they hear this) when they repackaged suture sets complete with blood and other fluids still on them, to be reused on other patients.
Depending on the type of suture set, it could have included a scalpel, a needle probe, and other instruments that would lead to inner-body contamination.
The patients of this "doctor" may have become infected with something due to her lack of care.
Related Resources:
- What is accountable Medical Malpractice? (FindLaw)
- What rights do I have as a patient? (FindLaw)
- Do you need a New York injury lawyer? (FindLaw)
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