Bad news for Albert Einstein derm dept...

[sensitive skin]

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/..._YJCVp4fjg1duCpOLOnJ0zI?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/22/us.child.needles/index.html?hpt=T1

Sad story. Everybody be sure to check your sharps containers on Monday.

 

[N-Surge]

Also make sure to remind your patients parents to hold on to their children. Something else I find questionable in the article is the statement, "...she heard her daughter screaming and crying." Did she not know where her child was? Could she not see her child?

I also feel sorry for this child in that she appears to not have been appropriately monitored at all times by her parent. This sad story reminds me, as a father with a 3 month old, to make sure I am always taking full care to know where my child is, to have her in my sight and in my reach.

Disclaimer: This doesn't excuse having an open red box on the floor.

 

[Cirrus83]

It actually sounds like they had left the dermatology clinic to go to the allergy clinic when it happened. Kinda ultra-unlikely that the kid would have gotten HIV but since they don't know whose needle it is I guess they have to put her on the antivirals.
I'm guessing someone's going to get fired over this though...who leaves open sharps containers around in clinics full of kids?

 

[sore eye asses]

It actually sounds like they had left the dermatology clinic to go to the allergy clinic when it happened. Kinda ultra-unlikely that the kid would have gotten HIV but since they don't know whose needle it is I guess they have to put her on the antivirals.
I'm guessing someone's going to get fired over this though...who leaves open sharps containers around in clinics full of kids?

Instead of milky way and snickers, I left a box of sharps on my porch for the neighborhood kids to rifle through on halloween. I saw one kid make off with some top quality hypodermics. Kids these days...

chasin' the dragon, no doubt.

he was four.

 

[IzzyMD09]

I work at Einstein as a prelim and have rotated with the Derm dept here, I know the clinics well, and all of our sharps containers are attached to walls at least 4 feet of the ground and unreachable by any 1-6 yr old, there is no way a child of 3 pulled one of these off the wall, opened it, and then stuck her hands and stomach??? inside to get pricked by needles, and was the mother in the room or not in the room, if she wasn't that is neglect and child abuse and she should be tried for this,

The hospital is more then precautious about these things, especially because its a public hospital and the types of patients we get are often looking for a lawsuit....

feel sorry for the kid though, but the mother should be in jail

 

[asmallchild]

something is fishy about this story...

 

[Substance]

I call BS.

I bet the mom took the sharp container down from the wall and put it on the floor. She's trying to get a hefty settlement to fund whatever bad habit she wishes she could afford.