To: mctree

How can you possibly say
"I can understand the observation team not interfering with the procedures and I would understand the big picture could include finding something else other than propofol contamination that might apply to other facilities, Another poster made an inference that the procedure was corrected on the 11th, and I would say this was fast action."

You could seriously understand if you or someone you love was lying on that table while the Health Department looked on, "WIDE-EYED"?

I can not understand it - it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever when one human being was in that room and could have stopped the needle from entering another human being. They already saw one of the sources of contamination happen when the syringe or vial was being re-used. They certainly did not need to see it injected into someone and then go to lunch, according to the latest report, before they said anything about not doing it.

Here's something pretty interesting - I am checking to see if there are any other things people should be hecked for and went looking for a list that the State of Nevada monitors - when I found this right on their website - Notice the word vacant?

http://health.nv.gov/index.php?option=co...

Public Health Preparedness Home
Vacant
Program Manager
4150 Technology Way, Suite 200
Carson City, Nevada 89706
Public Health Preparedness (PHP) at the Nevada State Health Division has a unique role in public health emergency preparedness and response. This website is a one-stop preparedness resource center, with consistent, up-to-date information and tips to help Nevadans prepare for a public health emergency.

This website is supported by the Nevada State Health Division through Grant Number U90/CCU916964-05 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Nevada State Health Division nor the CDC.

I have been stunned, angered, scared, in a state of disbelief since learning of the exposure thousands of people who are someone’s sisters, fathers, mothers, brothers, uncles, aunts, friends, sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, grandmothers, grandfathers faced this past week.

Greed, stupidity, fear of losing a job are some of the reasons which will come forward but I am having the most difficult time with wrapping my head around this:

The investigative team entered the clinic in full force the next day. Barrett was in the group that commandeered a conference room to cross-reference a log of clinic patients with a computer database of more than 20,000 known hepatitis C carriers in the county, to determine whether any recently identified carriers might have contracted it at the clinic.

Wide-eyed investigators could not intervene to stop the process because they needed to document every step without disturbing the nurses’ routine, for sake of the larger mission.

“If we shut it down, another place opens and they do the same procedure,” Labus said. “We had to look at the big picture. We had to think of the community in the long term.”

I wonder about those moments when Labus and Barrett looked into the eyes of the person lying on the table, about to get that injection, had it been a relative or friend of theirs, would they only have been capable of being Wide-eyed or would they have done what they should and stopped the procedure.
Their logic reminded me of Star Trek The Wrath of Khan - Don't grieve, Admiral -- it's logical: the good of the many outweighs --
... the good of the few... Or the one.
Each and every person who was treated at that clinic deserved better, The people who were at that clinic on Jan 10 while Labus and Barrett assisted have to live with knowing that help was there, just not for them.