Hepatitis Outbreak - Medical Malpractice in Las Vegas

At the end of February (I believe on the 28th) a major story was announced over the news that 40,000 patients of an Endoscopy Clinic in Las Vegas, NV had been notified that they could possibly have been infected with Blood born illnesses due to unsafe injection practices related to the administration of anesthesia during their procedures. Since that time the story has gone completely silent. The Doctor in charge is said to have ordered the Nurses to reuse vials of anesthesia on different patients, a practice widely known to be unsafe. This is said to be the largest Public Health notification procedure in the entire country.

The Government Offices in charge of the investigation determined that this practice had probably been going on since March, 2004 by comparing the amount of patients treated with anesthesia compared with the amount of vials purchased. Dr. Dipak Desai, the Doctor in Charge, had actually served on the state's Medical Board and is heavily involved in the state Governor's political campaign. I suppose this is the reason for the media's silence. Meanwhile I read somewhere that legislation was passed in Nevada over the last 2 or 3 years that puts a cap on Medical Malpractice suits at $50,000 per patient. If this is true, man, what a freak show. And, I repeat, the media is ignoring it!!

Interesting article on the Health Department's investigation from the the Las Vegas Sun. "How Hepatitis Probe Led to Clinic" by Marshall Allen, Mar. 2, 2008. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/mar/02/probe-led-quickly-quickly-clinic/

This article says that last December the Health Department noticed a rise in Hepatitis C patients in the county. During their routine interviews they asked whether the patient had had any medical procedures performed and the Clinic's name came up repeatedly. They began their inspection of the Clinic on Jan. 10, 2008 and almost immediately found that the nurses were contaminating the patients.

The Astrology is very interesting. Jupiter had been in Sagittarius, sign that rules the Liver. Jupiter was in conjunction with Pluto (large crowds) in Sagittarius in December when the patients had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. Then Jupiter passed into Capricorn at the end of December. Capricorn rules both Guilt and Government. If you've been doing something wrong, Saturn comes along and bites ya in the ass, so to speak. Jupiter and Pluto working together like to do things in a big way. Pluto, of course, rules the rectum, and I suppose plays a big part in rulership of Endoscopy Clinics, especially ones located on Shadow Lane in Las Vegas, NV, hehe.

In addition, Saturn had moved into Virgo, sign of Public Health, on Sept. 2, 2007. Six??? of the infections have been traced back to procedures performed on Sept. 21, 2007. Another case has been traced back to a procedure done on July 25, 2007.

And also, The South Node has been traveling through Virgo, sign of Public Health, from June 22, 2006 to mid Dec., 2007 so it changed signs into Aquarius around the time that the patients were diagnosed. The South Node has been in conjunction with Saturn since then. In this case, this literally talks about foul play in Public Health. Interesting that Pisces rules anesthesia and the vials of Anesthesia were the source of the contamination.

The astrology for Sept. 21, 2007 is interesting to look at since that has been determined as a major date of infection. Infection is ruled by Mars. Mars here is in Gemini opposite Pluto and squared by apex Sun in Virgo. Mars and Pluto in harsh aspect together. What a day to go for an Endoscopic procedure in the first place, oi. I've mentioned before in the entry I did on the recent Salmonella scare the prominence of Mutable Signs in those Public Health outbreaks. It certainly shows up here as well. The North Node on this date was at 7 Pisces with South Node just opposite in Virgo conjunct Saturn at 3 Virgo. Good old Saturn, it catches the guilty ones every time. And sometimes it catches the innocent ones as well, just ask anyone going through a Saturn Return.

There was a set of Virgo/Pisces Eclipses around this time describing the Health/Anesthesia theme. The Total Lunar Eclipse of Aug. 28 had Sun at 5 Virgo opposite Moon in Pisces conjunct the Nodal Axis. The Partial Solar Eclipse of Sept. 11 had a conjunction of Sun and Moon at 19 Virgo. Mars in Gemini in both charts is opposing first Jupiter, then Pluto.

The Mars oppositions are echoing the first set of Eclipses in 2004 when the shenanigans began. All charts have Mars in Gemini. On Apr. 19, 2004 there was a Partial Solar Eclipse that contained an opposition of Pluto to a conjunction of Venus-Mars in Gemini. On May, 4, 2004 there was a Total Lunar Eclipse that contained the same opposition with orb tighter to Mars.

Keep the Drs. away from your butt hole during heavy Mars-Pluto transits. Boy, I should check what date Katie Couric had her procedure done.

All Eclipses involved had major challenging aspects between Jupiter and Uranus in Mutable signs (Jupiter in Virgo in 2004, in Sagittarius in 2007 with Uranus in Pisces). Jupiter and Uranus acting together are known to create too much optimism.

I can't find Dr. Desai's birth information. Just love these Doctors who have no concern for health.