A nurse at a Wisconsin clinic may have exposed hundreds of patients to HIV and other blood-borne diseases for improperly using insulin demonstration pens and finger stick devices from 2006-2011. The Madison-based Dean clinic officials began trying to contact 2,345 patients by phone and letter to determine whether or not they should get tested. Chief medical officer Mark Kaufman and chief executive officer Craig Samitt said that risk was "small" because they are "confident the person always changed needles," but she used the same device for multiple people. But officials agreed there should be no risk at all. "There's a basic standard of care principle here," Samitt told the paper.
