Pharmacist Pleads Not Guilty in Boston Meningitis Case
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/pharmacist-pleads-not-guilty-in-boston-meningitis-case.html
From the article:
Glenn Chin, who was a supervisor at the now-bankrupt New England Compounding Center, entered his plea today in Boston federal court. He was the first person arrested in connection with the epidemic, which infected 751 people and killed 64.
The batch that Chin signed off on resulted in 217 infections and 15 deaths, authorities said. He’s named in several lawsuits filed against New England Compounding in Boston federal court.
Chin, a supervisor at Framingham, Massachusetts-based New England Compounding, was involved in putting together a batch of contaminated medicine that was later injected into hundreds of patients of one of its customers, Michigan Pain Specialists PLLC, the U.S. said.
Imagine that… a Pharmacist that signs off on batch of compounded sterile Methylprednisolone that killed 15 pts and gave another 217 fungal meningitis being charged .
Another work environment that a Pharmacist caved into the pressure of management to do it faster and faster … ,take short cuts and look the other way against their better judgement ?
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