Will the Docs still charge for the faulty treatments
Thousands Given Wrong STD Results
CRANBROOK, British Columbia - About 3,000 people got the wrong results when they were tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia over an 18-month period, health officials say. Because of a faulty diagnostic machine in this southeastern British Columbia town, test results for the two sexually transmitted diseases were reversed, Alison Paine, a spokeswoman for the Interior Health Authority, said Wednesday.
I don't know what I could say that would make this any
About 3,000 people are believed to have been tested between Nov. 1, 2000, and May 24, 2002, and about 83 were told they were clean when they actually had one of the diseases. Most of the 83 have been contacted but not all, Paine said. The rest of the 3,000 were told they were infected and were given treatment although they did not have the diseases, Paine said.
Wonder what the average charge to the BC medical system is per treatment. Actually on second thought I wonder what effect this has on the DIVORCE RATE in Cranbrook...
Authorities said they didn't know how many people may have had sex with 83 test subjects who didn't know they had at least one of the diseases.
Betcha that's cast a pall over the bustling Cranbrook singles' scene...
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I think potentially divorce is the least of worries for the unlucky 83 that were tested and have never been treated for gonorrhea. And I haven't even looked up chlamydia yet.
However, there is the unshakable human urge to gawk at the roadside accident and become Mr. Speculator. I've always been curious how things like this play out in the small ways (at least compared to what those 83 MAY face): the legal stuff, the social effects, whether the system gets overtaxed by all the extra treatments being charged...
There are enough people writing about big topic medical ethics stuff...I like to think about the whole big picture and sometimes get the un-P.C. urge to laugh and joke about it.
And I'm not alone.
And don't look up chlamydia. You'll thank me.
You're absolutely right, though, I WON'T look up chlamydia.