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Jun 2009
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Posted by Scott Spielman
at 4:50 PM | Comments
The State House of Representatives approved legislation last week aimed at ‘targeting unsanitary medical practices.’
Try finding opposition for that one.
The plan, sponsored by State Rep. Dian Slavens (D-Canton), would prohibit doctors and other regulated health care professionals from reusing needles and other medical equipment intended to be used only once on a single patient during a single procedure.
“It is imperative that we hold doctors and other health care professionals accountable when they engage in harmful and unethical medical practices,” said Slavens in a prepared release. “This plan will protect our residents by punishing those who break the sacred Hippocratic Oath—to do no harm.”
I thought these protections were already in place, but perhaps in today’s society you have to spell everything out. Violating the plan would be a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
It is apparently in response to a case involving Dr. Robert Stokes, a dermatologist from East Grand Rapids who is serving more than 10 years in prison for unsanitary medical practices.
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