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Brickbat: Professional Care

Charles Oliver | 1.24.2013 7:00 AM


The Buffalo, New York, Veterans Affairs Medical Center may have exposed hundreds of veterans to blood-borne diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C. The hospital has warned patients that staff repeatedly used insulin pens that should have been used only once and has asked them to be tested for various diseases.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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