Family sues after St. John’s pharmacy student dies during externship
http://nypost.com/2014/06/16/family-sues-after-st-johns-pharmacy-student-dies-during-externship/
From the article:
James Yoo, 22, of Manhattan, began working at Rockwell Compounding Associates in February last year as part of an externship required for a doctorate in pharmacology.
Four days into his externship, Yoo’s skin came in contact with the drug fentanyl, an autopsy shows.
Fentanyl, typically prescribed to cancer patients for pain, can be absorbed through the skin. As little as 2 milligrams can be fatal.
Yoo collapsed at the site and died six days later.
“For a young man to be left exposed to an extremely dangerous drug such as fentanyl only a few days into his externship program at Rockwell Compounding smacks of negligent training and supervision,” said his family’s lawyer, Joshua Gropper.
Was this particular pharmacy training externs… or using externs as CHEAP LABOR ? Unsupervised contact with FENTANYL ?? WTF ?
Filed under: General Problems
Leave a Reply