Indiana prosecutors filed criminal charges against a Mitchell Community Schools nurse for stealing students' medication and ingesting it herself. Carol Sanders is charged with felony official misconduct, felony neglect of a dependent, and five counts of misdemeanor theft. Police arrested Sanders Thursday and she was booked into the Lawrence County Jail. A staff member at
Mary Panza, a nurse, pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from Ridge View Endoscopy Center in Lone Tree where she had been responsible for tracking the center's drugs. According to the report, instead of handling the drugs appropriately she emptied wasted medication into vials with other drug labels. Ms. Panza said she diverted drugs from the
Mary Panza, a nurse, pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from Ridge View Endoscopy Center in Lone Tree where she had been responsible for tracking the center's drugs. According to the report, instead of handling the drugs appropriately she emptied wasted medication into vials with other drug labels. Ms. Panza said she diverted drugs from the
A hospital nurse tampering with syringes was responsible for an outbreak of Serratia marcescens in five patients in five different hospital wards in Wisconsin.
a rescue crew had gone to Heritage Rehabilitation and Living Center in Winthrop on Sept. 2, 2016, because of a report of a worker with a medical problem and found Landry slow to answer questions. She told them she had been taking Tylenol with codeine that she had obtained in Canada. Once rescuers administered Narcan,
A former North Carolina doctor who admitted giving powerful prescription drugs to female patients in exchange for sex was sentenced on Thursday to three years in federal prison. Dr. Michael Alson Smith traded drugs for sex with at least seven patients at his now-closed Mt. Holly Family Practice in 2017, according to court documents filed
Rachael Hird was raiding the drug cupboard on two nursing wards. The National Health Service (NHS) trust reported the missing medication to police, who searched Hird's home and found the UV-marked codeine in her make-up bag. A disciplinary panel ruled that she had repeatedly taken codeine from the hospital between July and September 2017. A
Six Michigan doctors have been charged in connection with a scheme to defraud health care providers out of more than $450 million and unlawfully prescribe more than 13 million opioids. Dr. Rajendra Bothra, Dr. Eric Bakos, Dr. Ganiu Edu, Dr. David Lewis, Dr. Christopher Russo and Dr. Ronald Kufner are accused of being part of
Six Michigan doctors have been charged in connection with a scheme to defraud health care providers out of more than $450 million and unlawfully prescribe more than 13 million opioids. Dr. Rajendra Bothra, Dr. Eric Bakos, Dr. Ganiu Edu, Dr. David Lewis, Dr. Christopher Russo and Dr. Ronald Kufner are accused of being part of
In 2017, two nurses at Medical City Plano pocketed more than a quart of fentanyl as well as sedatives and other painkillers.