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Britain offers another chilling example of the moral decay that socialist healthcare leads to.
Druggy paramedic high on the laughing drugs banned.
A Staffordshire paramedic found on a stretcher high on laughing gas when she was supposed to be looking after a patient has been suspended from her profession for a year. Janine Owen emptied the canisters in her ambulance and even inhaled when going to calls. Bosses at West Midlands Ambulance Service grew suspicious about the depleted stocks of nitrous oxide, Entonox, in May 2008.
They discovered she was responsible for the missing gas when they decided to mark her cylinders with a black cross.
She was also seen skulking off to the rear of ambulances where she would stay for some time, the Health Professions Council heard. Consumption of gas in her ambulance also did not tally with the emergency calls she attended.
Confronted with the evidence against her Owen admitted she had taken the gas. She admitted self-administering Entonox on numerous occasions between May and June 2008; responding to a 999 call while under the influence; failing to consider her actions could jeopardise the health and safety of colleagues and patients; and failing to comply with the trust’s policy on medicines, which states: ‘staff must not take medicines for personal use’.
HPC chairman Derek Adrian-Harris said a 12-month suspension order was the only appropriate sanction in the circumstances.
There can be no doubt that if Britain had the kind of Godly Free Market system that Jesus prefers, this terrible case would never have happened. But instead Marxist doctors dish out free Tamiflu to workshy scroungers left, right and centre (but mostly right), so it's no surprise that even paramedics are getting mashed out of their skullboxes on the gas drugs in order to numb the pain of living in an Obamaesque socialist nightmare.
Druggy paramedic high on the laughing drugs banned.
A Staffordshire paramedic found on a stretcher high on laughing gas when she was supposed to be looking after a patient has been suspended from her profession for a year. Janine Owen emptied the canisters in her ambulance and even inhaled when going to calls. Bosses at West Midlands Ambulance Service grew suspicious about the depleted stocks of nitrous oxide, Entonox, in May 2008.
They discovered she was responsible for the missing gas when they decided to mark her cylinders with a black cross.
She was also seen skulking off to the rear of ambulances where she would stay for some time, the Health Professions Council heard. Consumption of gas in her ambulance also did not tally with the emergency calls she attended.
Confronted with the evidence against her Owen admitted she had taken the gas. She admitted self-administering Entonox on numerous occasions between May and June 2008; responding to a 999 call while under the influence; failing to consider her actions could jeopardise the health and safety of colleagues and patients; and failing to comply with the trust’s policy on medicines, which states: ‘staff must not take medicines for personal use’.
HPC chairman Derek Adrian-Harris said a 12-month suspension order was the only appropriate sanction in the circumstances.
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