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Two States Seek Names of Patients of Pain Clinic Caught Reusing Syringes

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | 0

More than eight months after a case of bacterial meningitis triggered an investigation of a pain management clinic five miles south of Wheeling, health officials in West Virginia and Ohio are urging the clinic’s former patients to get tested for bloodborne infections. The investigation of Valley Pain Management in McMechen, an Ohio River town with a population of 1,900, found that syringes had been reused.  The clinic has been operated by Dr. Roland Chalifoux, who had his medical license revoked in Texas before moving to West Virginia in 2004. Dr. Loretta Haddy, West Virginia&rsq...

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