Needle Error Puts 50 at Risk in New Mexico

[Stuart G]

Source: MSNBC, AP

Med students improperly prick multiple patients while testing blood sugar

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A group of New Mexico medical school students failed to properly change needles on devices used for blood glucose testing, and now officials say a few dozen people might be at risk for contracting serious diseases.

University of New Mexico School of Medicine officials made the announcement Thursday, hoping they can locate those who participated in the free testing April 24 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Between 51 and 55 people were tested that day.


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[activa8tr]

1. How can one fail to change a needle? Even dumb folks

would know enough to never use a needle twice.

And these were students at a medical school?

If it were up to me, their medical careers would be over now.

[YDogg]

2. this

[Cal Carpenter]

3. Seriously,

doped out junkies know better than to do this.

Messed up.

[Kali]

4. not the same thing as a regular hypodermic needle

it was a glucose testing device - it may have seemed to some that it was automatic. Still a stupid major error but not quite the same as using something like a disposable syringe more than once.