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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

media: Pharmacy assistant who found diluted cancer drugs says label raised questions



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 TORONTO - An Ontario pharmacy assistant who discovered that chemotherapy drugs administered to more than 1,200 cancer patients in Ontario and New Brunswick were diluted says he doesn't consider himself a hero.
"It's just part of the process, it's part of our job, and it just happens that this check that we made had a broader impact than we certainly would have anticipated," Craig Woudsma, 28, said Tuesday.
"But definitely not a hero, no."
The pharmacy team in the small Peterborough hospital that caught the problem didn't want to go public with their story initially, according to hospital officials.
"We're not looking for glory or anything like that," Woudsma told an Ontario legislative committee that's investigating the drug scare.
"What we do is kind of the same thing day in and day out, and we're there for the patients. We didn't want to add to the spectacle that it kind of became.".......

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