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AP IMPACT: Med tech’s arrest shows flaws in system

By David Caruso, Holly Ramer
Published August 15, 2012 4:00am ET
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AP IMPACT: Med tech’s arrest shows flaws in system
FILE - This Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 file photo shows the Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N.H. David Kwiatkowski, who worked in the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory, has been charged with causing an outbreak of hepatitis C, infecting more than 30 people. Records and interviews conducted by The Associated Press show that authorities could have halted Kwiatkowski's career four years ago, after he was fired from a Pittsburgh hospital. But he went on to work at 10 more hospitals, none of which knew about his history. Kwiatkowski has pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) | Jim Cole

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was a few weeks into a temporary job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian in 2008 when a co-worker accused him of lifting a syringe containing an addictive painkiller from an operating room and sticking it down his pants.

More syringes were found in his pockets and locker. A drug test showed he had fentanyl and other opiates in his system.

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