State advises medical tests for former physician's patients
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, December 20, 2007
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The New York Department of Health said that a pain management physician contaminated medical vials by reusing syringes, and this week the department issued letters to some of his patients recommending that they get tested for blood-borne diseases, according to a December 18 Newsday.com article.
Harvey Finkelstein, MD, may have contaminated patients at his private offices in Plainview and Massapequa, NY, by reusing syringes, but health officials did not send letters to "thousands of others who were treated at New Island Hospital, Plainview Hospital and Long Island Surgicenter in Melville - where Finkelstein had privileges," because an investigation showed sound infection control practices there, according to Newsday.com.
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