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Perhaps the most alarming allegation to come out of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada hepatitis C scare is that physicians and nurses knowingly reused single-dose vials for multiple patients. This put upwards of 60,000 patients potentially at risk, shut down the clinic and jeopardized the careers of many staffers.
