Friday, June 19, 2015

Newsweek Story Updated: David Kwiatkowski lab tech who is serving a 39-year sentence for infecting people with hepatitis C

Hospital Horror Story: Confessions of a Night Shift Junkie

Yesterday Newsweek updated their story on David Kwiatkowski, dubbed the "traveling lab technician" who caused the disastrous hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire. Kwiatkowski regularly stole syringes filled with the drug fentanyl, after injecting himself he refilled the contaminated syringes with saline to be used on future patients.

Update: This article was updated to include a response by the Baltimore V.A.

Hospital Horror Story: Confessions of a Night Shift Junkie
BY KURT EICHENWALD / JUNE 18, 2015 6:07 AM EDT

Gripping the drug-filled syringe, David Kwiatkowski furtively glanced around to confirm that none of his co-workers could see him. Then Kwiatkowski, a radiology technician at Arizona Heart Hospital, darted into an employee locker room, found an empty bathroom stall and locked himself inside. Sweat dripped from his face, and his stomach churned; he desperately needed a fix. Minutes earlier, he had snagged one of the syringes nurses preloaded with drugs before leaving them unattended in the operating room. It was labeled “fentanyl,” an opiate many times more potent than heroin and Kwiatkowski’s latest narcotic of choice.

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