The ruse worked for about 10 hours:
“Our team members felt that she was a credible person,” Lutton said. “They thought she was a colleague.”But soon after the Monday night shift began, triage employees noticed that the “float,” their name for a temporary worker, couldn’t take temperatures or read blood pressure.
By her third failed attempt, they told her to shadow another worker. She did so for the rest of the shift.
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A welcome change from ER workers pretending to be doctors.
Yeah Redwawk, maybe you could score some dilaudid from them inknowingly.
Pshaw! Nothing less than 600mg Oxycontin with a chaser of medical mj for me, bro. Save your dilaudid for your lightweight doctor pals.
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