Orson Welles in the Third Man
Hundreds call North Jersey hospitals in fear over meningitis outbreak
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY OCTOBER 8, 2012, 9:49 PM
BY BARBARA WILLIAMS AND LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD
Hundreds of patients have been calling North Jersey hospitals worried that the spinal injections they’ve received over the last several months may have exposed them to fungal meningitis.
Pain management specialists at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood reassured patients that their hospitals had not used the steroid injections linked to a national outbreak of the rare form of meningitis.
“We’ve fielded hundreds of phone calls by patients given epidurals in the last few months,” said Dr. Jeffrey Gudin, director of the pain management center at Englewood.
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