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professional advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified healthcare

provider. And now, on to the show. Hi, Helix Talk listeners. This is Dr. Kane. I wanted to let you

know that this episode originally aired on March 16th, but we actually had a

correction for the episode that was sent in by one of our listeners.

Around 24 minutes into the episode, you'll hear us talk about the Vycira Pack, which is a

combination product for hepatitis C. We incorrectly say that it is two tablets in the morning,

one tablet at night. In actuality, it's three tablets in the morning, one tablet at night. In actuality, it's three tablets

in the morning, one tablet at night. And the confusion comes because one of the tablets, which

has three active ingredients, ambitosphere, parataprovir, and ritonevere, you take two of those

tablets every morning. The other active ingredient, dez zapovir, you take once in the morning,

once at night, equated to three total tablets in the morning, one tablet at night. And now, on to the

show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 23. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann.

Dr. Kutro? And I'm Dr. Patel. And we love Dr. Cottro so much.

We've asked her to come back for a very special episode today.

This is actually pretty personal to me.

So recently I was going through a glucometer bag for a patient,

and the patient left one of his insulin needles in his bag that was exposed,

and he's a hepatitis C patient.

So I had an accidental needle stick, and now I have to be worried about hepatitis C. And I know

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