|Articles|July 6, 2009
Surgical Patients Exposed to Hepatitis C
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CNN is reporting today that a former surgical technician at a Denver medical center could have exposed hundreds of surgical patients to the hepatitis C virus when she replaced fentanyl injections with used syringes filled with saline solution. To read the rest of this news item,
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