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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

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State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

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Archive > August, 2009 Vol. X, No. 8

Editor's Page

Would You Have Hired Kristen Parker?

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

By all accounts, Kristen Parker was a fine surgical tech during her 7 weeks of per-diem employment at the Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. "Very charismatic and very impressive" is how Administrator Brent Ashby remembers the young lady on our cover. "She was a good tech. She knew her stuff. And she looked like the all-American girl."

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