Veterans Health Administration hospitals are among the thousands of facilities that use the MediVator endoscopes to perform colonoscopies. VA procedures are no different from other hospitals. MediVator does the on-site maintenance and on-site training and provides all fittings and valves.
GOPer-Built Delusion: V.A. as a government health care operation is incompetent and has infected 6 patients with AIDS and another several hundred with bacteria. AP features this as a major scandal at VHA.
We're going to see hundreds of these sicko attacks on public health systems. "Senate to hear scandal" -- the standard banner. Same mentality as propaganda from any Supreme Leader bull-hockey club.
Why attack V.A. ??? Because the V.H.A. system costs 1/3 to 1/2 as much as private health care on a procedure-by-procedure basis. Drugs are negotiated, so they cost less than 1/2. And the quality is the same. More Below The Fold :::
Corporate Media are painting this as a V.A. problem. In fact, the same exact problem recurred everywhere across the MediVator customer base.
In April 2001, a company called MediVators put out a bulletin saying it had come up with a way to use its quicker machine to clean internal parts of a colonoscope, instead of spending so much time doing it by hand.
Though the instruction manual recommends a certain tube be used to manually process the channel, MediVators said to use a different method to connect to the machine for "superior flow."
The memo also said to make the customers aware of these recommendations and the "necessary hookups."
So did the necessary hookups involve the incorrect two-way valve? One expert suspects it did.
Mistakes happen.
People love to do automated processes, where it saves them having to take time for manual processes. Techies go on the product sheets. Lab techs never, ever work through the engineering calculations for the fluid dynamics of their equipment. Not that they have in-line test equipment to monitor flow rates... or know what is needed for a piece of gear.
Meanwhile, the GOPers are pushing fear and distrust. Talking Point paranoia.
Same themes as yesterday's focus on a Dr. Kao, who served the VHA in Philly. This guy was/is incompetent. One bad doc brought these headlines:
-- "Mistreating cancer patients"
-- "Botched cancer treatments"
-- "Bad medicine"
-- "Rogue cancer unit"
Funny, for Corporate Media propaganda. Every hospital has to weed out bad doctors. It happens. VHA in Philly did what everybody does.
Same, here. The bad actor was MediVator. A too-simple change to cleaning procedures opened the door for incomplete task completion. Techies did what they were shown, what was in the 2001 pamphlet. Blame VHA ??? Cummon....
This is all about Satan's soshulized med'sin........... dontcha know.