Thursday, June 24, 2010

Warning: addicted docs put patients in peril

Image: Kristen Parker

Random drug screening urged for health care workers

Surgical technician Kristen Parker (pictured here), 26, is believed to have exposed nearly 6,000 patients to hepatitis C.

More CASES here

In 2008, a Massachusetts nurse was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in jail after she had siphoned pain medication from bottles and replaced it with saline. Numerous patients just out of surgery were given the watered-down, completely ineffective drugs.

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