Self-Medication
The staff at the Excela Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Pa., noticed “an inordinate amount of foot traffic” to a patient in the intensive care unit, a hospital spokeswoman said. And rather for visiting for about an hour, like most, they were “coming and going in a matter of minutes.” Hospital security brought in the police: the unnamed woman, they say, was dealing heroin from her hospital bed, and even injected some into her own IV. Police found 342 single-dose bags of heroin in her hospital room, and $1,420 in cash from her sales so far. (RC/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) ...As if that would come close to paying for even one day in ICU.Original Publication Date: 11 May 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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