Patients at St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach were quite shocked and taken aback when a nurse in the Emergency Care Unit reported that their blood samples tested positive for marijuana.
How could that be?
One startled patient informed the personnel right away that there was a gross error!
"I haven't smoked any marijuana in over twenty years!"
When a patient in the next bed over was overheard confiding to a Nurse that he smoked one or two joints a day, it was obvious to the individual who allegedly tested positive, what occurred behind-the-scenes.
The technician who drew the blood - and tagged the samples after-the-fact for processing - must have switched the blood samples by mistake!
Instead of investigating the issue to rectify the error, the Nurse in charge of the patient refused to open up an investigation, or even strike the erroneous blood test from the patient;s medical file.
In fact, when the patient asked for the name of the President of St. Mary's Medical Center so they could file a complaint, the staff in emergency claimed they did not know the individual's name.
And, get this, they denied having any knowledge of any contact information for the head of the Hospital they were in the employ of!
It not only stretches one's credulity, but smacks of an outright cover-up, undertaken in a deceitful and dishonest effort to mitigate damages arising from the negligent acts of the employees at St. Mary's in Long Beach which rose to the level of malpractice.
For good reason, I have issued this consumer alert, to warn residents of the neighboring areas to avoid St. Mary's Medical Center like the plague.
News at 11!
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