The Intervention-Part 2
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
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Treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism is not a perfect science and recovery is a lifelong pursuit. For healthcare workers, where the risks of addiction can translate into patient harm, intervention is critical. In part two of our series, the tragic outcome of one doctor's untreated addiction, and the intervention and conclusion of one doctor's long road to recovery
Broadcast History
May 6, 7, 8, 2008
Transcript
Murphy/ Part 2
Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
Airdate May 7, 2008
When a physician or healthcare provider becomes addicted to drugs, patients are at risk.
I literally quit using every single evening. Last time, never again, and then next morning I was back at work, and checked out my first syringe and used it.
That?s the voice of a Seattle doctor who was addicted to narcotics. He?s now in recovery thanks to the Washington Physician Health program. Its high rate of success is drawing national attention.
KUOW?s Patricia Murphy has part 2 in her series on addiction among healthcare providers.
Kim Jones was in a hospital in Richland Washington for a routine tubal ligation. But during the procedure the anesthesiologist removed her breathing tube prematurely. Seattle attorney Ron Perry says Jones? heart stopped beating on the table and she...
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