Oakland police are investigating the death of a patient who appears to have been administered the wrong dose of medication by a replacement nurse this weekend, according to the Bay City News.
Oakland Police Department officers responded to the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center on Hawthorne Avenue at 4:05 a.m. Saturday to investigate a patient death, the Bay City News reported. A preliminary investigation showed that the patient had been given a lethal dose of non-prescribed medication.
The incident occurred after Alta Bates administrators barred their nurse employees from returning to work Friday after a strike Thursday by 23,000 nurses from the California Nurses Association at Sutter Health affiliate hospitals and Kaiser Permanente hospitals.
The name of the patient, who had been receiving treatment at the hospital since July, is currently withheld while the police department’s major crimes division and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau investigates further, according to the Bay City News.
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Sorry, I just read up on this more. It wasn’t even a strike anymore. The hospital was locking out the regular workers and using scab labor, instead (at the expense of their patients’ safety). Care to justify that “logic,” Guest?
Um, what? The hospital decided to use scabs rather than sign a contract, someone dies, and it’s the workers’ fault? That’s just insane.
Any time I read the word “scab”, I can tell the person who wrote it is a union shill.
According to the union, there is nothing wrong with them going on strike for one day (necessitating that the hospital hire replacements for that day), but the hospital keeping those replacement nurses on for a few extra days is equal to negligent homicide??
Another example of the “logic” emanating from labor unions….