Monday, January 18, 2010

Surgery Tech Details Stealing Painkiller

This scum should be executed. But more importantly there should be better safety procedures instituted. Hopefully something will be learned from this case.

in reference to:

"A surgery technician who infected three dozen people with hepatitis C and may have exposed thousands of others by switching used syringes with ones filled with a powerful painkiller says she got careless while at two Colorado hospitals and doesn't expect to be forgiven. Ahead of a hearing where she'll be sentenced to 20 years in prison, Kristen Diane Parker described for prosecutors how she slipped through a hospital's drug screening process and began stealing drugs as she coped with a heroin addiction. "I can't ask for forgiveness," a tearful Parker, 27, told Assistant U.S. Attorney Jaime Pena during a videotaped interview Jan. 11. "I don't expect anybody to forgive me for what I've done. You know, I'm human. I was a drug addict." Parker pleaded guilty to tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by deceit or subterfuge. She admitted stealing syringes filled with Fentanyl from operating carts while employed at Denver's Rose Medical Center and Colorado Springs' Audubon Surgery Center."
- Surgery Tech Details Stealing Painkiller - CBS News (view on Google Sidewiki)

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