1-800-GET-THIN clinics put patients at risk, lawsuit alleges

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 02:30 in Health & Medicine

Surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign used improperly sterilized equipment during Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries, two ex-workers say in the lawsuit.Surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign used improperly sterilized surgical equipment during Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries and failed to notify several patients that they might have been exposed to the hepatitis C virus, two former workers alleged in a new lawsuit.

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