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Ms. Hepatitis C May Have Infected Patients At Hospital in New York

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 05:59:18 PM EST
Tags: Hepatitis C, Kristen Parker (all tags)
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Ms. Hepatitis C, Kristen Parker, may face more charges. Turns out she worked at a hospital in New York before coming to Colorado. As a precaution, Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY is notifying 3,000 patients they should be tested.

No patient at Northern Westchester has been linked yet, but the health department is recommending that anyone who had surgery at the hospital between Oct. 8, 2007 and Feb. 28, 2008 to be tested for the disease.

Parker is being held without bond in Denver.

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    National Spokesperson (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by squeaky on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 06:05:22 PM EST
    For ending the war on drugs. Hope that she gets out of jail before she dies so that she can give testimony across the US about the dangers to society on the WOD and in criminalizing drugs abuse.

    She is amoral. (none / 0) (#4)
    by Fabian on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 06:45:07 PM EST
    Did she lie on her employment applications?  How did her previous record of on the job theft not disqualify her from her most recent job?

    It will interesting to see the facts come to light.

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    Yeah (none / 0) (#6)
    by squeaky on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 07:00:37 PM EST
    Drug addiction will do that to a person. Anything in the way between them and getting high, not to mention collateral damage, loses all significance.

    Now if all drugs were legal and abuse was treated as a medical rather than a criminal issue, ticking time bombs like this would just not happen.

    Sure there will always be insane people, and domestic terrorists, but this tragedy is only a result of the WOD, imo.

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    I'm sorry (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by rdandrea on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 09:01:32 PM EST
    I don't see this person as a poster child for society's ills.

    I see her as a really awful human being if she actually did what was alleged.

    I realize that those cases aren't mutually exclusive, but I think we might be looking at a narcissistic, addict personality that could look no farther than getting high.

    Not all drug addicts are victims.  Sometimes it's their victims who are the real victims.

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    Obviously (none / 0) (#9)
    by squeaky on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 10:12:43 PM EST
    You have not been around addicts. Particularly addicts who cannot afford to pay for their habits.

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    Ok, so WOD isn't working (none / 0) (#14)
    by nycstray on Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 12:46:02 AM EST
    how about adding into your commentary a bit about how health care access could help also. I can see the argument side of legalizing drugs etc, but without proper treatment available to all . . .

    Some people need proper treatment, and until they can overcome their problem, they need safe alternatives. It seems to me, the drugs she was taking would be ones that need proper supervision, which I don't feel an addict can offer themselves.

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    Yeah (none / 0) (#20)
    by squeaky on Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 10:33:17 AM EST
    I have always held the position that drug abuse is a medical problem not a criminal one. Treatment etc, should be evaluated and handled by doctors and health workers, not jailers and courts, imo.  

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    NY Hospital is an actual hospital. (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by inclusiveheart on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 06:44:15 PM EST
    You might want to add the word "a" before "NY Hospital" in your title since New York Hospital could get upset and patients who've been there could also be unnecessarily alarmed that they may have been exposed.

    thanks, will do (none / 0) (#5)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 06:57:06 PM EST


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    3000 doses in NY, 5700 in CO. (none / 0) (#2)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 06:41:43 PM EST
    8700 doses. That we're aware of.

    Man alive, if not for the WOD she'd have just bought them for just pennies apiece at her local 7-11.

    Yeah (none / 0) (#7)
    by squeaky on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 07:04:06 PM EST
    Just like the alcoholic gets his or her nighttrain at the corner liquor store.

    As I mentioned in the other thread, do you think that if  Ms. Hepatitis C was an alcoholic would she have st