Showing posts with label hepatitis C. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hepatitis C. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Sick Fuck of the Week

"Face of Evil" by Vince Locke (vincelocke.com)

And now for the moment more people than there are stars in the sky wait for all week--the Sick Fuck of the Week award.

The nominees:

1. Medical technician exposes patients to hep-C with dirty needles, posted today, about a 26-year-old painkiller-addicted med technician working at a medical center in Phoenix who came up with a great scheme: keep used syringes with saline solution in her pocket and switch them with Fentanyl-filled syringes on operating carts, exposing some 6,000 patients to hepatitis C, an incurable virus that can lead to serious liver disease.

2. Tales from the crypt...so much for resting in peace, posted July 9, about four sick fucks with another interesting scheme: dig up the corpses of people buried in a historic African American cemetery near Chicago, dump the remains in a mass grave at the back of the property or bury new corpses on top of old ones in order to resell the plots, racking up some $300,000 in about four years.

3. Cheap fireman kills dogs, posted July 8, about a 43-year-old fireman in Ohio going on a cruise who couldn't or wouldn't pay for boarding his dogs, so he tied them up to a pipe on the ceiling of his basement, shot them to death with a rifle, and dumped the remains in the dumpster behind the firehouse.

4. Rambo lady kills bambi, posted July 8, about a 75-year-old woman also in Ohio who saw a small fawn resting in her beloved flower garden, grabbed a shovel, beat it repeatedly until she killed it, and put it out with the trash.

And the winner is...um...well...OK, here's the thing--I'm feeling the peer pressure.

The grave re-sellers' macabre scam was the biggest scandal, so it would make sense to honor them with the award; however, I was not scandalized. It just didn't affect me at all (if you want to know why, click on the link above and read the story).

The junkie exposing thousands of people with hep-C--for the rest of their lives--because her feet and back hurt after long shifts and because of the stress of a custody battle is pretty sick, if you ask me. If anything, the junkie potentially affected more people than the grave scammers.

Yet, when I read about the animal killers, I feel compelled to inflict physical, mental and emotional damage on them, to crucify them.

So...the winner is...(drum roll)--the bambi killer.

This sick fuck cannot have a kind bone in her body, no empathy, no sensitivity, no mercy.
She sees a fawn lying quietly on the ground in her garden--not trampling over the flowers or eating them--and she can't think of anything else to do but grab a shovel and beat the crap out of it.

After hitting the bambi once with the shovel, it screamed (according to the neighbors), and she kept hitting, banging and hammering that shovel down on its head and the rest of its body until the fawn no longer screamed or moved. Then she dumped it in the trash.

As if that weren't enough, after the fatal beating, this compassionate human being reportedly said: "I killed it--I killed it dead. And I'd do it again." What a sick fuck!

Well, she better hope she doesn't stop to smell the flower garden of some animal or wildlife activist in the neighborhood, or she might find herself with a shovel sticking out of her skull.

Congratulations to Sick Fuck of the Week
Dorothy Richardson of Ohio

We don't have a photo of this week's sick fuck, so here's another photo of a bambi like the one she killed in cold blood:

Can you imagine?

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Painkiller-addicted medical technician exposes patients to hepatitis C with dirty needles

Kristen Diane Parker (AP Photo/Denver County Sheriff)

I heard about this one a few days ago but somehow neglected to post the heartwarming tale.

A junkie who worked at an ambulatory surgery center exposed some 6,000 patients to hepatitis C with dirty saline-filled syringes she kept in her pocket to replace syringes filled with Fentanyl from operating carts when doctors and nurses weren't looking.

So this sick fuck was willing to risk getting caught stealing a narcotic and putting dirty syringes on operating carts, but she couldn't risk getting caught stealing clean syringes from a drawer or supply room in the center where she worked. WTF?

So far 10 cases of hepatitis C have been linked to the Rose Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, where 26-year-old Kristen Diane Parker worked as a medical technician until April. Hepatitis C, a virus spread through blood, is a treatable but incurable disease that can cause serious liver problems.

Denver police launched an investigation in April, and the state health department began its probe June 1 after former Rose surgery patients began testing positive for the disease. Parker was arrested June 30 on state drug charges.

Parker told a detective she stole 15 to 20 syringes of Fentanyl. "I knew my limit," she said, noting she took 100 to 250 micrograms of the drug--a synthetic opiate painkiller that is 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine-- each time she used, enough medication for a 500-pound person.

She said she took the narcotic to cope with the stress of a custody battle with her ex-husband over her 2-year-old son, six-hour shifts on her feet, and back pain from moving patients around the operating rooms. (What is she going to take to cope with prison?) She claims that she had a problem with painkillers in the past and that she may have gotten hepatitis C when she used heroin last summer while living in
New Jersey.

"She's going to take responsibility," her attorney said. (Um...for those who were once healthy and now have an incurable disease that could potentially end up killing them, no amount of "responsibility" will do, if you ask me.)

Whether or not Parker knew she was infected with hepatitis C will determine the criminal charges filed against her, police said. She reportedly tested positive before starting her job at Rose in October but failed to follow up when she got the results. People infected with hepatitis C can work in health services as long as standard precautions are taken, according to the CDC. Now she claims that hospital officials didn't make it clear (whatever that means) that she tested positive.

A federal magistrate judge declared her a danger to the community and ordered her held without bond, saying her actions showed significant disregard for the safety of others. Her next hearing is Oct. 6.

"She knew she had hepatitis C. She's a health care worker and she understands how this disease is spread," said Pat Criscito, 56, an author and freelance writer who had back and hand surgery at Rose last fall. She claims a positive result would've meant certain death because years of arthritis treatment have severely weakened her immune system.

"If I was going to die, she deserves life in prison. I can't understand how somebody can do that to another human being," said Criscito, who tested negative and is waiting for the results of a second test.

Health officials are trying to determine if the 10 hepatitis C cases are definitively linked to Parker. People with hepatitis C often don't know they're infected because they don't develop symptoms until years later.

Ugh, this is disgusting and wrong on sooo many levels...

Think about the patients who got nothing instead of the powerful painkiller they were supposed to get to cope with the very real, hardcore pain from a surgery or medical condition. While they suffered excruciating pain, Parker was drifting on a cloud of Fentanyl, easing her mild back pain, her tired feet and "coping" with her custody battle.

Sources: The Associated Press, CNN
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