Alcohol Abuse in the Hospital: Nurse On Call Was ‘Stumbling’ Drunk During an Emergency Surgery

February 26, 2016

(Medical Daily) – The issue of substance abuse among medical staff isn’t new. “There are likely to be more nurses than doctors with addiction problems, because there are more of them, not because they have a higher percentage of addiction,” said Dr. Arthur Kaplan, the director of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. “They can make mistakes that can kill patients, too.”