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 xyz789
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 Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis 
#10617584 - 07/03/09 09:38 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is downright sad and pathetic.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/03/hospital.employee.arrest/index.html
DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.
A hospital worker has admitted to secretly injecting herself and using unclean syringes for patients.
Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver, has admitted to secretly injecting herself in a bathroom and using unclean syringes as replacements for patients, investigators say.
She had hepatitis C, which she believes she contracted through using heroin and sharing dirty needles while she lived in New Jersey in 2008, authorities say.
She was a surgical technician at Rose from October 2008 to April 2009.
Nine patients who had surgery there during that time have tested positive for hepatitis C. Investigators are looking into whether they contracted the virus from Parker.
According to an affidavit filed by an investigator with the Food and Drug Administration, Rose Medical Center knew Parker tested positive for hepatitis C. She was counseled on how to limit her exposure to patients.
Parker quit after she was found in an operating room where she was not allowed to be. She subsequently tested positive for fentanyl. Hospital officials then contacted the DEA.
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Parker is in federal custody facing three drug-related charges. If she is found to have done serious harm to a patient, she could face up to 20 years in prison. If a patient dies due to her actions, she could face life in prison.
In a statement to police, Parker said, "I can't take back what I did, but I will have to live with it for the rest of my life, and so does everyone else."
Her attorney could not be reached Friday.
Rose Medical Center is contacting 4,700 patients who had surgery at Rose during the time Parker was employed there. However, hospital officials do not believe that that many patients were exposed.
"We are taking a very conservative and cautious approach by contacting everyone who had surgery during this broad time period," a statement on the hospital's Web site states. "It is likely that most of the patients who receive letters will not have been exposed to hepatitis C."
Another 1,200 patients may have been infected between May 4, 2009, and July 1, 2009, when Parker worked at Audubon Ambulatory Surgical Center in Colorado Springs. Audubon is also contacting patients.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: xyz789]
#10617587 - 07/03/09 09:39 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I love shots
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: Dug a Sprogie]
#10618124 - 07/03/09 11:46 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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This type of sh*t goes on alot anymore in hospitals. You'd think they'd give the workers a psychological pre-screening or something. I guess it wouldnt matter anyways, theyd lie their way out of it.
It gets old saying it, but, if drugs were legal... this would not have happened. Period. Nor would it ever happen again. Unless this was intentional (giving them hepatitus C) then it wouldnt have been preventable at all, so why demonize it as a drug induced incident? 
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: Methadone]
#10619381 - 07/04/09 08:43 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Methadone said:
This type of sh*t goes on alto anymore in hospitals. You'd think they'd give the workers a psychological Pre-screening or something. I guess it wouldnt matter anyways, theyd lie their way out of it.
It gets old saying it, but, if drugs were legal... this would not have happened. Period. Nor would it ever happen again. Unless this was intentional (giving them hepatitus C) then it wouldnt have been preventable at all, so why demonize it as a drug induced incident?
-M
I really dont think legalization of drugs would stop this kind of behaviour. This has nothing to do with the legality status of drugs, this has to do with a dumb nurse who just wanted to get high on Fentanyl which wouldnt be made widely available if drugs were legalized, nor should it. Its active in way too small of doses.
Some things should remain as prescriptions/meds.
Her being careless and taking patients needles after sharing needles while doing heroin is pretty fucking bad. She deserves whatever she gets IMO. Reckless shit for a fix.
Edited by TTT (07/04/09 08:45 AM)
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: TTT]
#10619894 - 07/04/09 11:24 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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TTT said:
I really dont think legalization of drugs would stop this kind of behaviour. This has nothing to do with the legality status of drugs, this has to do with a dumb nurse who just wanted to get high on Fentanyl which wouldnt be made widely available if drugs were legalized, nor should it. Its active in way too small of doses.
Some things should remain as prescriptions/meds.
So you think a person that has a legitimate job, is an addict, and has access to drugs at work which she uses, wouldn't be affected by having drugs legalized? You think she wouldn't pay the ridiculously low prices that you can buy narcotics for and use those instead?
You think she was evil? That she wanted to hurt people? Or maybe, she's not evil, she's just a fucked up addict for whom using the drug had a higher motivation than doing her job or caring for patients.
When the illegal supply is very expensive and can be unreliable in its distribution, it makes perfect sense to me that an addict would use while at work with drugs she had.
Note too that the only reason she had to do this was because of the DEA's controls and the hospital's implementations of them. If they weren't so tight, she could have just taken her own syringes or used them on the patient and then saved the rest. Only the DEA requires excess to be disposed of and witnessed, so she couldn't. The only solution was taking her drugs first, so she could either waste with a wtiness or, depending on the injection, use the entire syringe.
This woman clearly deserves just punishment, but it is silly to ignore the role prohibition played in this tragedy. When drugs are available, the addicts need not hoard them, nor steal to support ridiculously expensive habits, nor do things like this woman did. And if the controls weren't so tight on her, I'm willing to bet she simply would have taken the syringes home, rather than exposing people.
Either way, drugs should be legalized for harm reduction as well as moral reasons, and people who do things like this woman should go to jail.
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: johnm214]
#10620007 - 07/04/09 11:59 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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johnm214 said:
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TTT said:
I really dont think legalization of drugs would stop this kind of behaviour. This has nothing to do with the legality status of drugs, this has to do with a dumb nurse who just wanted to get high on Fentanyl which wouldnt be made widely available if drugs were legalized, nor should it. Its active in way too small of doses.
Some things should remain as prescriptions/meds.
So you think a person that has a legitimate job, is an addict, and has access to drugs at work which she uses, wouldn't be affected by having drugs legalized? You think she wouldn't pay the ridiculously low prices that you can buy narcotics for and use those instead?
You think she was evil? That she wanted to hurt people? Or maybe, she's not evil, she's just a fucked up addict for whom using the drug had a higher motivation than doing her job or caring for patients.
When the illegal supply is very expensive and can be unreliable in its distribution, it makes perfect sense to me that an addict would use while at work with drugs she had.
Note too that the only reason she had to do this was because of the DEA's controls and the hospital's implementations of them. If they weren't so tight, she could have just taken her own syringes or used them on the patient and then saved the rest. Only the DEA requires excess to be disposed of and witnessed, so she couldn't. The only solution was taking her drugs first, so she could either waste with a wtiness or, depending on the injection, use the entire syringe.
This woman clearly deserves just punishment, but it is silly to ignore the role prohibition played in this tragedy. When drugs are available, the addicts need not hoard them, nor steal to support ridiculously expensive habits, nor do things like this woman did. And if the controls weren't so tight on her, I'm willing to bet she simply would have taken the syringes home, rather than exposing people.
Either way, drugs should be legalized for harm reduction as well as moral reasons, and people who do things like this woman should go to jail.
I never said she intentionally hurt people, man. I just said she was being reckless and fiendish by using patients needles after she shared needles with fellow heroin users in Jersey. As someone in health care she should fucking know better. Im saying she should be punished for putting people that are supposed to be cared for and healed in danger just because she wants to get a fix.
In this case I dont think legalization of drugs would of helped anything, though I am a supporter of it in general.
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: Methadone]
#10620107 - 07/04/09 12:24 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dumb bitch. 
Sterile needles are everywhere in a hospital. She could have used them to avoid contracting Hep C to begin with, and could have easily replaced the needle she used with a sterile one when she was finished jacking a part of the patient's dose.
I expect she will rot in jail for this.
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: TTT]
#10620284 - 07/04/09 01:11 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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In this case I dont think legalization of drugs would of helped anything, though I am a supporter of it in general.
If syringes were legal and uncontrolled, she would have no reason to use dirty ones on patients.
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#10621528 - 07/04/09 05:30 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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huh....i was born at this hospital
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: johnm214]
#10622134 - 07/04/09 08:52 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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johnm214 said:
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TTT said:
I really dont think legalization of drugs would stop this kind of behaviour. This has nothing to do with the legality status of drugs, this has to do with a dumb nurse who just wanted to get high on Fentanyl which wouldnt be made widely available if drugs were legalized, nor should it. Its active in way too small of doses.
Some things should remain as prescriptions/meds.[/quote
So you think a person that has a legitimate job, is an addict, and has access to drugs at work which she uses, wouldn't be affected by having drugs legalized? You think she wouldn't pay the ridiculously low prices that you can buy narcotics for and use those instead?
You think she was evil? That she wanted to hurt people? Or maybe, she's not evil, she's just a fucked up addict for whom using the drug had a higher motivation than doing her job or caring for patients.
When the illegal supply is very expensive and can be unreliable in its distribution, it makes perfect sense to me that an addict would use while at work with drugs she had.
Note too that the only reason she had to do this was because of the DEA's controls and the hospital's implementations of them. If they weren't so tight, she could have just taken her own syringes or used them on the patient and then saved the rest. Only the DEA requires excess to be disposed of and witnessed, so she couldn't. The only solution was taking her drugs first, so she could either waste with a wtiness or, depending on the injection, use the entire syringe.
This woman clearly deserves just punishment, but it is silly to ignore the role prohibition played in this tragedy. When drugs are available, the addicts need not hoard them, nor steal to support ridiculously expensive habits, nor do things like this woman did. And if the controls weren't so tight on her, I'm willing to bet she simply would have taken the syringes home, rather than exposing people.
Either way, drugs should be legalized for harm reduction as well as moral reasons, and people who do things like this woman should go to jail.
Yea I think the bitch is evil and should be shot in the head ! I'm A junky and never and i mean never would steal a sick persons medicine and give them dirty needles. Using addiction as an excuse is a fucking joke that puts the rest of us addicts in a bad spotlight because of stupid, selfish, fucking CUNTS like this! and drugs being legal has nothing to do with some bitch stealing shit when shes sick I dont care if dope is illegal and 10 bucks a bag or legal and 3 bucks fact is she will just do more of the 3 dollar dope until shes broke just like if it was 10 and she would still be stealing. drag her to the gallows.
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#10622166 - 07/04/09 09:03 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Alan Rockefeller said:
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In this case I dont think legalization of drugs would of helped anything, though I am a supporter of it in general.
If syringes were legal and uncontrolled, she would have no reason to use dirty ones on patients.
Dudes shes in a hospital.
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: TTT]
#10731388 - 07/24/09 07:29 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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sad.. sad.. sad..
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She came under suspicion at Rose about two weeks earlier when a syringe in her top scrub pocket poked a co-worker.
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Edited by rodfarva (07/24/09 07:31 AM)
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Re: Hospital worker may have exposed patients to hepatitis [Re: xyz789]
#11855329 - 01/18/10 09:05 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Update ...
Colorado surgery tech details stealing painkiller
January 18, 2010 - summitdaily.com
Kristen Diane Parker will be sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday
DENVER — 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.
Parker told prosecutors she injected herself with the Fentanyl, then replaced it with saline. She said she intended to put the saline in clean needles but got careless.
Prosecutors say her scheme exposed nearly 6,000 patients at the two hospitals to the incurable liver disease. Thirty-six of them got infected.
“It really doesn't matter if it's one or 30,” author and freelance writer Pat Criscito of Monument, south of Denver, said Saturday, adding she thought Parker should have faced attempted murder charges. “There are some people who are not going to live as long as they were going to because of her.” Criscito was one of the thousands tested but her case turned out negative.
Investigations also were launched in Mount Kisco, N.Y., and in Houston, where Parker previously worked. Parker told prosecutors she stole no syringes at her first scrub tech job in Houston but started the practice at her second job at Northern Westchester Hospital in New York. There, she said she took care to fill clean, unused syringes with saline to replace the Fentanyl-filled syringes she stole from operating carts.
Fentanyl is 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
About 2,800 patients at Northern Westchester were advised to get tested for hepatitis C. Hospital spokesman Mark Vincent didn't return a phone message; but in a statement in October, the hospital said it doesn't believe any of its patients got the disease from Parker.
In Houston, an investigation found no cases linked to Parker, Harris County health department spokeswoman Rita Obey said Friday.
Parker's sentencing hearing is set for Friday in federal court in Denver.
Parker described on the videotape how she got fired from her jobs in Houston and New York for performance issues and altercations with co-workers. She said she planned to move back home with her parents in Elizabeth, Colo., but she had to wait in New Jersey until she resolved theft and larceny charges against her in New York. She said those cases involved stealing diapers and groceries after she lost her job.
Parker said she may have gotten hepatitis C from sharing needles while using heroin in New Jersey. She said she last used heroin Sept. 21, 2008, when she shot up in a New Jersey airport before boarding a plane to Colorado.
By the time she was offered a job at Rose Medical Center, Parker says she was certain the heroin was out of her system and she would pass a urine analysis.
She did, and she began work in October 2008. But there was another complication: Hospital officials told Parker she may have hepatitis C. They told her to get checked by a doctor and gave her some paperwork.
“I probably didn't even read it,” she said. “I was in denial. ... It was like, 'If I don't face it, and I don't confront it, it's not there.”'
Parker maintains she didn't know she had hepatitis C.
Within days of starting at Rose, Parker said she began stealing syringes from medical carts, at first taking care to replace them with clean needles, then losing track.
“I kept (them) in my pocket, and it got to a point where I'd have clean syringes, clean needles in there, but I also had the dirty ones that I used as well. ... They're all in the same pocket. They all look the same. ... I'd pull it out and look at it, and go, OK.”
Parker said she shot up in the bathroom anytime she could, and admitted she knew the patients she stole drugs from were experiencing pain based on the graphs on their medical monitors.
“There's no remorse,” Criscito said. “Anybody who can do that in the first place is extremely self-centered. She's only thinking of herself and her drug needs.”
Parker came under suspicion after a syringe in her pocket pricked a co-worker. She was fired from Rose and got hired a few weeks later at Audubon in Colorado Springs, about 65 miles south of Denver.
She worked at Audubon only briefly, until she was arrested in June after Colorado health officials linked her to hepatitis C cases at Rose. Investigators have said one case at Audobon may be linked to Parker.
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne disease that can cause serious liver problems, including cirrhosis or liver cancer. smptoms can include nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, pain and jaundice.
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