Hello Carlbrun. I am sorry to see noone has added to your message or responded directly to you. I am shocked you have not heard from the Heath Department. If my understanding is correct, your wife found out she had Hepatitis C on her own somehow, but was not informed of this by the Health Department, nor interviewed by the Health Department as to how she may have contracted it or for any other reason. Is my understanding correct?

Maybe you should contact the National Health Department in Atlanta...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A. Switchboard: (404) 639-3311 / Public Inquiries: (404) 639-3534 / (800) 311-3435 - Be sure to included information on your previous calls and/or letters (copies) to our local Health Department and their lack of response to you.

This is not to say you shouldn't follow-up with local authorities on the fact that our own local Health Department has not contacted you regarding your wife's 3 reports.

As you said you have records, I would also suggest, since you are not seeing action with our health department, take your records to an attorney. If you are correct, and your records document this, then you will see your justice in the arena of a courtroom.

I can't get out of this screen... so I think someone is trying to tell me to say it. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT THE BOARD TO SAY. They are not doing the job they profess to do here. I have met very few doctors who feel compelled to do their jobs and work helping the patients and earn their pay because they know there is no real consequence if they chase the buck instead. How many people feel like they have just been run through a greedy pen, like a herd of cattle, left walking out in a daze, wondering what did they just pay for? What in the hell! Why wouldn't they keep on keeping on soaking the patients and insurance companies. Aren't these items of concern to this board. NO, NOT ONCE did they concern themselves what this lack of care does to individuals. DAH! Why doesn't the Board do anything about things "as small" as this? People die because diagnosis were not even looked into or given, because no attempt was made. So many doctors are to busy thinking about the buck and rushing to the next in line, only to do the same to that next patient. This has been a problem for so long and has never been dealt with by the Board. Every one walks. It comes down to this each and every time someone makes a complaint, yet it is never tended to. Enough already. Get the brothers off the Board. Of course they took the license of convicted child molesters and drug addicts and so called doctors selling drugs. If not, that would have brought the government officials down here just like these dirty outpatient surgery centers did. DAH!!! We need real action to get this under control. This Board will never change... All I see is excuses, excuses, excuses. They examples of punishments given here are nothing less than that!

KC: The FBI and the Federal Health Department from Atlanta are two (2) entities that are here to "cover ours". We are mad, totally rightfully and understandably. So far so good I think with the investigations. I fear the longer it takes and is quiet, the more we won't learn, but this really feels like it is our only chance to get ahold of the mess our medical system is in. The gloves are off and they are hashing through it. They are seeing the light, we need to stand behind them rather than jump on them in our anger. We need to stand behind them when they put the trash on the table. If you ask me, they need more support from us than anyone realizes. It takes a lot to speak out against and up to some of the powerful people involved in this. So far, I can see they are doing this and I think that is brave, daring and deserving of our thanks and respect. I'll go further and beg that they just keep on digging through it until it is all out there.

I feel like the heat is coming down and it won't matter if the Medical Board won't stand up... which they won't.... Hopefully our government will put a stop to that mess too.

Dear hfcooke: Why would an insurance company be inclined to watch over this clinic. Think about that, not only do I think that may be against the law, but most importantly... how much would watching over the clinic cost them. Taking into account that these doctors liability is about $50,000 and not more, why would the insurance company add additional expense to that. You know if their liability is only $50,000, the insurance companies do not make a profit if they spend it watching over the doctors and the clinic. It really is not their place either. What do they know, they are glorified accountants. Looks like we are back to making money 101 in Las Vegas again. Money really makes the world go around huh. There has got to be a better way to balance it than this $50,000 cap for all our sakes.

Patient2008: I agree, people file the silliest, most stupid and very greedy lawsuits. Some people will say they do it because it is a free country and they can. The Courts sometimes need to think more about the Defendants rights as well, but in reality, they do that. When was the last time anyone heard of the Court ordering costs to be paid from a Plaintiff in a bogus case which they just simply were laughed out of Court after wasting everyone's precious time. The Court's sometimes really do make the Plaintiffs pay the Defendants costs fighting that case, but if the person who sues doesn't have the money it is useless. Why don't we just look into other ways to make them pay.... like restitution - make them work it off while the payment/paycheck goes to the Defendant. But that is just a fleeting thought. There does have to be a way, I just don't think it was looked at by the able minded law makers. I'll tell you this much though... there are lawyers learning lessons on those types of cases. If it is a contingency fee agreement... they put work into it and if they lose, they make nothing for all their work. That helps slow the flimsy lawsuits down when noone is willing to take them anymore. The other side of that coin is that when there is a viable case, like medical malpractice and someone is injured or ripped off by not getting the treatment they go to these doctors for, There are not many attorneys at all that would take that case because all they can sue for is $50,000 and that is not enough for the time and energy they put into a case. Here we go with money makes the world go around again. Hard to balance that in a "free country"... unless you have money... you can buy it, not matter what IT is. Round and Round it goes.

Didn't you mean the doctor's insurance rates will go up? Medical malpractice insurance may go up if the hoards of government officials undo what should have never been done and turn that medical malpractice cap around. And I still say, the doctors who screw up and commit negligent medical malpractice, especially because of greed, should have their medical malpractice rates raised. To bad it is usually only raised years after a medical malpractice suit and the insurance finally had to pay up to the injured. I believe the doctor who is good, kind and attends to his/her patients needs should only have to pay the rates of their good record, but the abusers should see that money go the same way it came.

It is not just ambulatory surgical centers... It is healthcare all around. There is no consequence to medical providers for malpractice or seeing the green before the patients. This entire system needs a look at!

Dear Illsaywhatsonmymind: It could have been one of two reasons that noone took your aunt's case. First Medical Malpractice is hard to prove. When this happened, how many nurses would you say would have spoke up about what went on in your aunt's surgery room? They obviously were in more fear of losing their jobs or possibly not being able to get another in the community if Desai was as powerful as they are saying. Second, reason an attorney may not take a Malpractice case anymore is pretty much the same reason as why all this happened. Its not enough money for the trouble for the attorneys. Injury cases are usually 33 1/3 of the sum recovered in settlement and 40% if it goes to trial. When these doctors had a cap placed on the amount a person could sue, I believe the cap is $50,000 against a medical professional (not to sure anymore about facilities). 40% of $50,000 (less costs sometimes) is just not enough for attorneys. That is just one way the cap screwed us all out of decent medical care and justice.

Now this is simply disgusting. For crying out loud, either Dr. Azzam is also friends with this group of doctors or he is living in complete la la land and oblivious to where medical care is at here in Nevada. This is Anerica Dr. Azzam! His way, our local health department would have let them walk away with a $3,000 fine if they would just put a plan on paper to correct it. I'll be damned if the doctors and nurses didn't know what they were doing was wrong and what health issues could be caused from it, but they did it anyway. Now how long do you think that fine and promise would have had any affect. The next day this clinic would have been back at it. I think we need a new State Epidemiologist also! What kind of person beleives we don't have the right to know? If there wasn't for this coming out in the open "a public health scare" it would never be corrected and it would continue. If it had to happen, and it did have to happen eventually with all that these doctors have done to protect themselves, I am glad it unfolded the way that it did because now they are forced to know, WE MATTER and it will have to made right. The authorities will have to make it right and these doctors will have to start putting some time and energy into the field of work they chose to do and earn the fees they charge. We have every right to know what dangers they put around us and so do the federal entitites such as the Health Departments and Bureau of Investigation. It is doctors like this that took medical care in the State of Nevada to the sloppy greedy state that it is in right now.

Yes, that is the beautiful part about this nvkorruption, except, it is so widespread there is no way we as citizens will finally get to see the full truth come out. NO WAY. It is to darn ugly out there in the medical field in Nevada OOOPS, I mean the money field in Nevada. I can't see our government letting us get so riled up again. They seemed to have finally gotten us calmed and under control. The shock has passed and not so many are speaking up much anymore. It's already being washed away. To bad, it is our interest and persistence that lets them know that we really had enough and demand change. I will say though... it is looking good from this report! I was really glad to see the gloves coming off. I like Buckley! You go girl! Call them as you see them. I agree 4 million should have been fined! CAN WE GO BACK AND CORRECT THAT INJUSTICE? We should use that fine to hire professionals who will really take the these inspections and punishments for violations seriously? A group who will look at the health of mankind first. It suits many purposes to fine them the 4 million. Not only is it perfect justice to have these doctors who had much to do with the changing of our laws and placed themselves on all their own overseer's boards to prevent their punishment or ramifications for any wrong doing, leaving them the freedom to reuse vials and syringes with little consequence. (Don't worry there is much more to be had to keep those jobs going for a long time!) It also solves Governor Gibbons' office's frequent statement... "lack of funding". I am so sick of hearing that and it just doesn't ring true or even possible. We have more money from the casino industry than any other state, yet we always hear, "lack of funding" If there really is a lack in funding, then who is pocketing it? Isn't that one of the governor's job... to balance our budget? Why did the health of the people of this state come last? This state works like a third world country all around. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the sick get sicker - but unlike third world countries... when the sick go to the doctors, the doctors still get richer but the sick still get sicker.

I get riled up when I think and hear about this mess Jes! I hope you get your results soon. Those last few hours when you know the results are waiting for you at the doctors office are the toughest. That's when it really sinks in. Much worse than the week's wait. Isn't it funny how this all started over Medical Professional's greed, yet, in order to get your results, you are required to go pay a Medical Professional to give them to you. I somewhat agree about this city. I love it here, the weather is nice 9 months out of the year, tolerable those 3 hot months, but I have to say, I have thought of leaving before because of the medical situation which I think is mostly caused by greed.... how many patients can we cram in an hour, don't spend to much time on a patient, let the patient leave without diagnosis, forcing them to continually come back time and time again while they just keep billing for each visit, but the greed kind of bothers me in other places around this city also. The health care greed is most upsetting because it causes disregard for life. They make so much more than the average Joe, why do they want so much more and willing to get it in these ways? It's bad here, and if this mess doesn't turn it around and fast, some of us who are sick will have to leave to get good proper care and diagnosis. Greed is prevelant here in this city, but when it becomes so apparent in our health care and you know it will adversely affect you and your family... its time to go. That reality really stinks, but it is before us all.