Monday, July 6, 2009

A Little Knowledge Can Be A Bad Thing


Here is a scary example of the damage someone can do when she has inside knowledge. Kristen Diane Parker faces criminal charges for swapping her own dirty syringes for ones filled with Fentanyl, a really powerful narcotic. It that wasn't bad enough, she may have exposed thousands of people to Hepatitis C! At least nine have tested positive so far. Evidence is showing that Parker, a scrub tech, may have done this at two different ambulatory centers in Colorado. It is scary when an addiction is so strong that it not only destroys your own life but makes you oblivious to that fact that you are destroying other lives as well. Actually, that is basically the definition of addiction. Sorry. Maybe even more problematic is the fact that Parker was not caught earlier by anyone in the medical system. She obviously was fired by from her first employer. Is it possible that the Rose Medical Center knew she was doing these tricks and didn't warn anyone? I smell lawyers in the water.