Dix Hills, NY, doctor who re-used syringes, may have infected hundreds, is still practicing

This just in from NewsInferno:

The family of [Peter Cicero], who died from hepatitis C has been left to wonder if medical malpractice committed by Dr. Harvey Finkelstein played a role in his death. Finkelstein is the Dix Hills doctor who exposed patients-infecting at least one with hepatitis C-to blood-borne pathogen infections because of his practice of reusing syringes. Finkelstein, an anesthesiologist since 1981whose patient base reaches into the thousands, continues to practice at the Pain Care Center of Long Island and has admitting privileges at the New Island Hospital in Bethpage, the North Shore University Hospital in Plainview, and the Long Island SurgiCenter in Melville. Six of Finkelstein’s patients tested positive for hepatitis B and six for hepatitis C, according to the Nassau County Health Department.

Cicero, a former patient of Finkelstein’s had already sued the doctor because a botched procedure had left him paralyzed. The malpractice suit was ultimately settled in 2004; Cicero had received $975,000. Did the doctor not only paralyze, but also kill him?

Perhaps the courts will have to decide.